Dwarkesh Patel — Podcasting, Talent & Innovation (EP.147)
Infinite Loops
Is Effective Altruism Providing an Effective Outlet for the Billionaires?
There's a quote from Will Durant that a wise person can learn from the mistakes of others, a fool cannot even learn from his own mistakes. And effective altruism essentially provides an effective outlet for billionaires or centimillionaires who would have been Caesar or Napoleon in the past. Matt Clifford made exactly kind of that argument with him on infinite loops. But was there anything about Bankman when you were talking with him that was kind of like things that make you go, hmm.
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