Synopsis
The tech philosophy of Effective Altruism, while well-intentioned for many, could end up significantly impairing civilisational progress. It could even totally jeopardise the delicate balance of technical and economic innovation, which ultimately drives prosperity and abundance for humanity.
Culture and technology have always been intertwined. But recently, there is a full-on techno-cultural war raging through the digital alleyways of Silicon Valley, between the philosophies of techno-optimism (also called e-accelerationism or e/Acc) and Effective Altruism (or EA). A lot has been written about how techno-optimism can end civilisation as we know it: Machines take over, sentient software causes sabotage, misinformation causes strife
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