I strongly disagree that Will McAskill or EA generally are responsible for “misaligning” Sam Bankman-Fried. I don’t see much evidence that either effective altruism or “Effective Altruism” did much to cause his life to play out as it did.
Sam is, as you see, someone who is able and willing to lie and mislead others. You should approach his comments regarding his motivations with the same skepticism you apply to the other things he says.
Is that a claim of this post? It’s a long post so I might be forgetting a place where Zvi writes that, but I think most of the relevant parts of this book review are about how MacAskill and EAs are partly responsible for empowering Sam Bankman-Fried, for supporting him with great talent and trust with funders and a positive public image.
I strongly disagree that Will McAskill or EA generally are responsible for “misaligning” Sam Bankman-Fried. I don’t see much evidence that either effective altruism or “Effective Altruism” did much to cause his life to play out as it did.
Sam is, as you see, someone who is able and willing to lie and mislead others. You should approach his comments regarding his motivations with the same skepticism you apply to the other things he says.
Is that a claim of this post? It’s a long post so I might be forgetting a place where Zvi writes that, but I think most of the relevant parts of this book review are about how MacAskill and EAs are partly responsible for empowering Sam Bankman-Fried, for supporting him with great talent and trust with funders and a positive public image.