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‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism

I hadn't heard of any controversies around EA, it always seemed like a positive thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

So what I'm getting is that the philosophies aren't the problem, but rather it's members of the community doing unethical things in the name of the movement

Sam Bankman-Fried
Bay Area Misogyny

In a 2023 Time magazine article, seven women reported misconduct and controversy in the effective altruism movement. They accused men within the movement, typically in the Bay Area, of using their power to groom younger women for polyamorous sexual relationships.[147] The accusers argued that the majority male demographic and the polyamorous subculture combined to create an environment where sexual misconduct was tolerated, excused or rationalized away.

Still bad and needs calling out

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Philosophy Tube have a great video about Effective Altruism. It was some time ago that I watched, but iirc, EA is just "let us do unregulated capitalism at our own benefit, because in the future trillions and trillions of humans are going to benefit from it. Don't mind the planet being destroyed now, and the billions of humans suffering now, everything would be cool in future. Trust me bro."

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

That's only "longtermism". EA as introduced by Peter Singer in "the life you can save" is an incredibly sincere and well founded philosophy of charity.

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