Month: 21 Nisan 5784 (April 2024)

Plus: Right-wing pundits pretend Joe Biden hasn’t condemned campus antisemitism.

Colleges Have Gone off the Deep End. There Is a Way Out.

In the ten days since the massacre in southern Israel, many normally very opinionated people have been writing about their political epiphanies following the event itself and the reactions to it. I’m…

Effective Altruism’s Bait-and-Switch: From Global Poverty To AI Doomerism by Mike Masnick

The Effective Altruism movement Effective Altruism (EA) is typically explained as a philosophy that encourages individuals to do the “most good” with their resources (money, skills). Its “effective giving” aspect was marketed as evidence-based charities serving the global poor. The Effective Altruism philosophy was formally crystallized as a social movement with the launch of the […]