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The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Effective altruism is just capitalism camoflauge, it's also just really bad at being camoflauge

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

helps you get a lot of community support and publicity during startup and then you don't have to give a damn about them once you take off

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Effective altruism could work if the calculation of "amount of good" an action creates wasn't performed by the person performing that action.

E.g. I feel I'm doing a lot of good buying this $30m penthouse in the Bahamas.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You had two chances to spell camouflage correctly and you missed twice? I mean. Points for consistency, at least? 🤪

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I can't spell, don't blame me for relying on an ordinarily quite useful tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No judgement, autocorrect is my damn nemesis. 🤗🤘🏼