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Geoffrey Miller: Evolutionary Psychology, Polyamorous Relationships, and Effective Altruism — #26

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Is EA to Blame for the FTX Collapse?

There's been a huge amount of discussion within EA and I've been involved in effective altruism for about six years. Sam Bankman Freed had an extremely weird and extreme version of expected value theory that he was sort of applying to his business decisions. Some people are attributing actual sort of Machiavellian intent to a lot of this. Yeah I think the great tragedy here is if Sam Bankman created just taking a few more courses in evolutionary theory rather than economic theory he would have, he would have stumbled across this thing called optimal foraging theory which analyzes how animals make investments about finding food and avoiding starvation.

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