[2018]

DUDES: We made a website where you can look up a charity and see what % of donations it spends on admin overhead

ME: Hey that rules

DUDES: It's called effective altruism

[2025]

OTHER DUDES: So those EA dudes want to pave all farmland on earth for the benefit of hypothetical robots 10,000,000,000,000 years in the future

ME: Wha

[DOES THIS STORY HAVE A MORAL? I CAN'T TELL.]

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@mcc my only contact with this whole ecosphere is scott adams, and while a lot of his posts were very interesting, i do feel he kind of ignored how inequality and real life suffering are a bit more immediate threats than possible future raptures (or "the economy").

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