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The Sam Bankman-Fried Update

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Altruistic Power of Rationality

The fundamental selfishness of this whole community is made clear when you read the essays these people write on their websites like less wrong a blog founded by self declared AI X. So it is through math like this that EA is able to look at it a world where millions face death by famine or disease or rising sea levels and say the best way to help the planet is for us to become finance bros. You will totally fail in that art if you bulldoze your values in a desperate effort to fit in, he says.

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