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Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future

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Following the successful launch of The Roots of Progress Fellowship, we are now fundraising to support and expand the program in 2024 and beyond. View our full fundraising pitch and see how to donate here. In this update: Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future The origins of the steam engine: An essay with interactive animated diagrams Links digest Full text below, or click any link above to jump to an individual post on the blog. If this digest gets cut off in your email, click the headline above to read it on the web. Subscribe for free to get posts by email: Over the last few years, effective altruism has gone through a rise-and-fall story arc worthy of any dramatic tragedy. The pandemic made them look prescient for warning about global catastrophic risks, including biosafety. A masterful book launch put them on the cover of TIME. But then the arc reversed. The trouble started with FTX, whose founder Sam Bankman-Fried claimed to be acting on EA principles and had b

Following the successful launch of The Roots of Progress Fellowship, we are now fundraising to support and expand the program in 2024 and beyond. View our full fundraising pitch and see how to donate here. In this update: Neither EA nor e/acc is what we need to build the future The origins of the steam engine: An essay with interactive animated diagrams Links digest Full text below, or click any link above to jump to an individual post on the blog. If this digest gets cut off in your email, click the headline above to read it on the web. Over the last few years, effective altruism has…

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