Tech exec: Beware the ‘Effective Altruists’ “Effective Altruism is the unseen force driving AI safety discourse” as “EA crowd is trying to restrict your access to the most important technology of the 21st century,” fumes Shyam Sankar at The Free Press. “EA is a utilitarian philosophy” that “leads in strange directions,” “obsessed with quantifying existential risk”; it “claims rationality and precision,” but “delivers neither” — as, e.g., “a human life can become a rounding error in somebody else’s calculation of the greater good.” These “doomsayers are the Leninist vanguard of the algorithmic age,” writing a recipe for “despair and failure.”...