As someone who made decent money off that site back in the day, fuck Steemit. Realizing that my earnings came from Korean folks losing their life savings turned me against crypto for life.
JohnBierce
joined 1 year ago
Such a shock.
I've spent way too many pages of my books making fun of utilitarians to stop now lol.
Even Peven Stinker, friend and defender of Jeffrey Epstein, is coming out against EA? Wow.
Goddamnit I wish I'd intended that pun
Yeah, there's absolutely a place for arguments that aren't full-bore "capitalism is evil, forward the revolution!" Some people need to be eased into that space, and articles like this, that show how fundamentally stupid and terrible Musk and company are, are a great way to get people to start asking HOW dingbats like that got power. And it's not the longest journey from there to questioning whether something is wrong with the system itself.
(There are failure states, of course- namely, reinforcing the neoliberal idea that if you just put better people in charge of a system, it will work better. But that's a question of execution, not of tactical validity.)
Somehow, I doubt there's many other sneerers in Hanoi, but you never know...
As a non-tech person who has zero idea what Urbit is, this is still deeply funny to me.
I'm guessing there's probably a libertarian bent to this whole thing, somehow?
Seldom have I seen anyone who has drunk their own kool-aid deeper than SBF.
Oh heck yeah new Dan Olson
How delightfully ineffective
(Seriously, what has Effective Altruism ever accomplished beyond buying castles?)