Effective Altruism

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Sam Bankman Fried, aka SBF, is someone who made a lot of money in cryptocurrency exchange called FTX and was also very vocal proponent of effective altruism. He turns out to be a huge fraudster and lost billions of dollars for himself and for other people. Do I think that the malfeasance of Samuel Bankman Fried has changed things? Well, it doesn't undermine the idea ofeffective altruism in any possible way, says John Sutter.

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