Ok so everyone in the West was Christian for 1000 years, and that Christianity gave us our moral intuitions, but then 18th century philosophers stopped believing in Christ while still retaining those moral intuitions, so they came up with a bunch of semi logical secular principles that kinda justified those moral intuitions, but all their ethical frameworks had extremely unintuitive radical implications if taken seriously, and now 21st century philosophers are removed enough from Christian society to take them seriously, so now they’re trying to reshape society around those radical implications, and they just happen to be best friends and fuck buddies with the guys making killer robots, so now this radical pseudo religious cult has been given control of killer robots and we’re all gonna die.
Amanda Askell, who has no children, was previously married to William MacAskill, co-founder of Effective Altruism
Dario and Daniela Amodei, CEO and President of Anthropic, used to live in a rationalist group house with Holden Karnofsky, who co-founded GiveWell, an early Effective Altruism-aligned organization
Daniela and Karnofsky are now married.
Anthropic also received significant funding from Sam Bankman-Fried.
SBF was also a prominent Effective Altruism donor, prior to the collapse of FTX due to fraud.
These connections between Anthropic leadership and the Effective Altruism community are alarming and if you go down the rabbit hole and trace the money trail, it will be very interesting…