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• Post #314877

  A little exchange on the EA forums I thought was notable: …effectivealtruism.org/…/long-term-risks-from-ide… tldr; a super long essay lumping together Nazism, Communism and religious fundamentalism (I didn’t read it, just the comments). The comment I linked notes how liberal democracies have also killed a huge number of people (in the commenter’s home country, in the name of purging communism): The United States presented liberal democracy as a universal emancipatory framework while materi...

• Post #217866

  The lesson should be the mega rich are class conscious, dumb as hell, and team up to work on each others interests and dont care about who gets hurt Yeah this. It would be nice if people could manage to neither dismiss the extent to which the mega rich work together nor fall into insane conspiracy theories about it.