What exactly is Effective Altruism?

Hint: It Created Sam Bankman Fried/FTX

According to their website, “The Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA) is a charity dedicated to building and nurturing a global community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s biggest problems and taking impactful action to solve them. We hope that this community can help to build a radically better world: by connecting students and young professionals with relevant experts, we can help them consider their values and find an effective way to contribute that is a good fit for their skills and inclinations.”

Like all of the non-profits set up by the global elite, there are many layers and connecting organizations. EA Global and EAGx hosts is a conference series “They bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. Speakers and attendees share new thinking and research; coordinate on important projects, and work together to solve pressing problems.” They create the ‘pressing problem’ out of whole cloth, like climate change or the virus that causes the pandemic and then use this network to capture the event for their use. If, for some reason, something is created without their approval such as crypto, they create a Sam Bankman Fried (SBF) to fix it. More on that in a moment.

San Francisco hosted EA Global 2022 draws in young people and promised to distribute $500 million toward mutually agreed agenda items/projects. “So there is this level of just really grand ambition of not just to change the world in some nebulous way, but to actually substantially change the chance that we get to, you know, fulfill humanity’s potential.” I sometimes hear people say the effective altruism is virtue signaling, that people just do it because they wanna look good…I’ve seen people who are determined to save the lives of total strangers…” Sounds like a religious cult. Are the same people systematically destroying the Christian religion creating a new one with EA?

The overall philosophy of EA is that you shouldn’t buy a $5 cup of coffee because that $5 could buy food in a 3rd world country for an entire family. They shame first world citizens into donating under the theory they will save future generations when in fact the money isn’t used for third world countries, its use to create SBF disruptors. They shuffle the money between their controlled non-profits and bought a (literal) castle in England for their HQ. What are their list of issues used to guilt people into donating? “We aim to list issues where each additional person can have the most positive impact. So we focus on problems that others neglect, which are solvable, and which are unusually big in scale, often because they could affect many future generations — such as existential risks. This makes our list different from those you might find elsewhere.” What’s an existential risk? “our first priority should be to survive.” Yes, we’re all going to die.

They were shocked to find “Social science researcher Spencer Greenberg surveyed Americans on their estimate of the chances of human extinction within 50 years. The results found that many think the chances are extremely low, with over 30% guessing they’re under 1 in 10 million.3” “We used to think the risks were extremely low as well, but when we looked into it, we changed our minds. As we’ll see, researchers who study these issues think the risks are over 1,000 times higher, and are probably increasing.” And do you know who funds those researchers? Yes, EA does.

Another priority is Longermism. “Since the future might be very long, there could be far more people in future generations than in the present generation. This means that if you want to make the world better in an impartial way — i.e. without regard to people’s race, class, or where or when they’re born — then what most matters morally is that the future goes as well as it can for all generations to come. We’ve called this the ‘long-term value thesis.’” “The arguments for and against longtermism are a fascinating new area of research. Many of the key advances have been made by philosophers who have spent time in Oxford, like Derek Parfit, Nick Bostrom, Nick Beckstead, Hilary Greaves and Toby Ord. We’ve found it interesting to watch them deepen and refine these arguments over the last 10 or so years, and we think longtermism might well turn out to be one of the most important discoveries of effective altruism so far.” And of course, the people mentioned all work for…EA. In a nutshell, this theory argues for making decisions they want to make today under the auspices that it helps future generations. It’s how they justify euthanasia, abortion, etc. It’s the ‘morally’ correct thing to do today to ensure theirs enough resources for tomorrow. Do you see the slippery slope…it’s unending. They can make any argument fit into this because no one knows today what is best for tomorrow. It’s just another way to appear morally superior to everyone while they destroy our country, our culture and lead brainwashed disciples into the fires.

Their vision: “we want to contribute to a world where humanity has solved a range of pressing global problems — like global poverty, factory farming, and existential risk — and is prepared to face the challenges of tomorrow.” Stated differently, they want control of the money to “solve” poverty, control your food supply and create fear by highlight existential risk that we’re all going to die if we don’t do what they demand.

Their mission: “Our mission is to nurture a community of people who are thinking carefully about the world’s biggest problems and taking impactful action to solve them.

We are focused on this because we believe that capable and determined people can make the world better if they think very carefully about which problems to work on and then take action on that basis.”

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What is EA really? Well, those of you who follow me know I have done quite a bit of research on many different topics. I’ve found a common denominator of Stanford and Oxford nearly every single time. This particular subject (EA) lands squarely on the campus of Oxford. Oxford has significant ties to UK intel apparatus. So anything you think or see Oxford, most likely there’s a tie to the intel community (IC). So there’s that.

Next, we look at who created it/whose working there…

EA has its roots in the US in Silicon Valley with many tech tycoons like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. You will hear things like EA organizations donated of $600M in 2021 but what you don’t hear is that in many cases it was to other EA organizations. Which, when you drill down into it, looks a lot like money laundering operations. I’m not saying that’s what it is but it definitely looks similar.

Meet Peter Singer, a philosopher who is basically recognized as the founder of the current EA movement. He is from Australia and is a touted ‘moral’ philosopher. He is a professor of bioethics at Princeton University. He teaches applied ethics from a secular, utilitarian perspective. This is very important to understand because of its close correlation to eugenics. Another way of thinking about “it is when choosing the most moral action, the amount of virtue in a particular action is proportionate to the number of people such brings happiness to”. Your first question should be: Who gets to make those decisions? Because in order to achieve this, you have to have a totalitarian state control to implement your derived conclusion or course of action. This entire movement is just another flowery way to implement a totalitarian regime using an appeal of helping the world. It’s that simple. To that point: “In Innocence and Consequentialism (1996), Jacqueline Laing, a critic of utilitarianism, argues that utilitarianism has insufficient conceptual apparatus to comprehend the very idea of innocence, a feature central to any comprehensive ethical theory.[127] In particular, Peter Singer on her view, cannot without contradicting himself reject baby farming (a thought experiment that involves mass-producing deliberately brain-damaged children for live birth for the greater good of organ harvesting) and at the same time hold on to his "personism" a term coined by Jenny Teichman to describe his fluctuating (and Laing says, irrational and discriminatory) theory of human moral value. His explanation that baby farming undermines attitudes of care and concern for the very young, can be applied to babies and the unborn (both 'non-persons' who may be killed, on his view) and contradicts positions that he adopts elsewhere in his work.”

Another key figure in EA is Nick Bostrom, an Oxford philosopher whose expertise is existential risks. What falls into this label of existential risks? Anything and everything that has the potential to end intelligent life or curtail its potential. So everything is an existential threat and can be used as an excuse to control you. Hopefully, you’ve realized where the overuse of the word “existential” originated by now. From a 2002 paper he wrote: “In the case of radically transforming technologies, a better understanding of the transition dynamics from a human to a “posthuman” society is needed.” Also from the paper: “Reductions in existential risks are global public goods [13] and may therefore be undersupplied by the market [14]. Existential risks are a menace for everybody and may require acting on the international plane. Respect for national sovereignty is not a legitimate excuse for failing to take countermeasures against a major existential risk.” Which begs for a global governance so everyone is under the same umbrella with an overarching global governance/totalitarian controlling body…Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility. If such selection were to operate over a long period of time, we might evolve into a less brainy but more fertile species…An upload is a mind that has been transferred from a biological brain to a computer that emulates the computational processes that took place in the original biological neural network [19,33,53,54]. A successful uploading process would preserve the original mind’s memories, skills, values, and consciousness. Uploading a mind will make it much easier to enhance its intelligence, by running it faster, adding additional computational resources, or streamlining its architecture…Whatever moral prohibition there normally is against violating national sovereignty is overridden in this case by the necessity to prevent the destruction of humankind. Even if the nation in question has not yet initiated open violence, the mere decision to go forward with development of the hazardous technology in the absence of sufficient regulation must be interpreted as an act of aggression.” Using his logic, Putin was perfectly within his right to attack Ukraine which had been actively developing bioweapons targeting Slavic DNA.

More from the paper: “Other technologies that have a wide range of risk-reducing potential include intelligence augmentation, information technology, and surveillance. These can make us smarter individually and collectively, and can make it more feasible to enforce necessary regulation…The only way of avoiding this outcome may be to replace natural evolution with directed evolution…Uploads and machine intelligences can reproduce virtually instantaneously, provided easy resources are available. Also, if they can predict some aspects of their evolution, they can modify themselves accordingly right away rather than waiting to be outcompeted. Both these factors can lead to a much more rapid evolutionary development in a posthuman world.” You get the picture, these people are transhumanists, globalists, in search of a totalitarian vehicle to get them put in charge and us as permanent slaves.

Another important figure in this movement is William MacAskill. He’s a Scottish philosopher and is the leading figure in setting up CEA. He based his work largely on the work of Singer and Bostrom. CEA was originally set up on Oxford Campus but later moved to the castle MacAskill purchased for its HQ. The castle Whytham Abbey, which includes an enormous, sumptuous building constructed sometime in the 15th century. He also set up a YCombinator non-profit called 80,000 Hours. The parent organization is Effective Ventures. What you realize immediately in researching this group is its empowering itself to be a global death panel. For example, MacAskill has said the removing intestinal worms have more impact that sight saving operations. Think about that statement; it may or may not be true but who would be in charge of making those decisions? Where does liberty, freedom, or the individual fall into the picture? Well, nowhere and that’s what makes it absolutely impossible to have EA, as they define it, exist in the US. Period.

The EA movement also steers vulnerable young people into careers of their choosing. Instead of advocating for someone to be a doctor and saving peoples lives, they advocate for you, as a college graduate, to go into finance (for example) and earn money more quickly but given it to them via donations. It even has a name, ‘earning to give”. See how that works? They set up job fairs at their annual conferences with this goal in mind. In an opinion piece in the NYT, MacAskill defined longtermism’s concerns like fossil fuel reserves, (losing) control over AI and virulent/engineered viruses. Stating that many organizations address these ‘existential risks’ or ‘x-risks’.

MacAskill set up GiveDirectly and GiveWell to collect the monies from all his disciples. Elon Musk tweeted on Aug 2, 2022 that MacAskill’s book, What We Owe The Future, was “worth reading. This is a close match for my philosophy.”

What else is there to know about MacAskill? Well in his book, Doing Good Better, he makes the argument that if there’s a baby and Picasso in a burning building and you can only save one, you should save the painting because you can sell it, make money and do the most good saving many babies in other countries. Yes, that’s an actual part of the book. I’m going to pause for a second and point out that even William’s name is fake for those of you keeping track of fake things. His real name is William Crouch, we think. Why do I say that? Because, those that looked for a William Crouch born in his month and year (he provided) in his country, couldn’t find a William Crouch either. Where did MacAskill come from? It’s his ex-wife’s grandmother’s maiden name. So we’ve discovered, he changed his name for no apparent reason, has no history as a result and is at Oxford, a known intelligence community hub….I’m going out on a limb and saying there’s a connection there, in my opinion. According to him, he was concerned at 18 about those dying of AIDS (I wonder if he knows it was man made too?) and read Peter Singer’s book, Famine, Affluence, and Morality, and it has guided his life ever since. He also spend a year at Princeton in the US. He serves on the board of Global Priorities Institute at Oxford and Director at Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. He is also an advisor at Longview Philanthropy. This is how they move money around making it look like they are funding charity work but in reality they are funding each other.

“More than 7,000 people have signed a pledge to give away at least 10% of their income to the kinds of high-impact charities recommended by, for example, GiveWell, which started in 2007 in New York to evaluate charities based on cost-effectiveness. There are more than 200 EA chapters around the world, from Nigeria to India to Mexico; this year, approximately 6,000 individuals will attend conferences in cities including Prague, Singapore, and San Francisco—where EA, with its data-driven approach to doing good, has found a particularly receptive audience.” It’s definitely a religion. His mother was a geneticist who worked for UK’s National Health Service. His interests have always been feminism, global governance, and vegan lifestyle.

The vast majority of EA’s newfound wealth comes from two tech billionaires: Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Bankman-Fried. Hold that thought…

MacAskill met Sam Bankman Fried (SBF) while he (SBF) was attending MIT through Epsilon Theta which is a computer geek coed faternity. MacAskill got SBF his job at Jane Street Capital. Jane Street Capital is likely a front company for getting IC hires financial experience. “EA life strategy called “earn to give,” whereby one strives to — quoting a Sequoia profile on SBF—“get filthy rich, for charity’s sake,” even if this means working for what MacAskill himself calls “immoral organization[s].” Although the means may be questionable, they’re justified by the ends: maximizing the “good” that one does in the world.” “Where was this opposition to “means-ends reasoning” when someone at a major EA conference, which is highly selective of its speakers, literally argued that we should consider investing “in evil to do more good”?”

MacAskill groomed SBF, his EA network financed SBF initially, and financially benefitted from it and in return SBF made Macskill an adviser on the FTX philanthropic fund “Future Fund”. It was another EA networked individual that founded Alameda, SBF’s first company. And yet another EA member that allowed SBF to use his Japanese bank account to generate the crypto float transactions that generated the initial money for FTX. The MacAskill EA network orchestrated SBF at every step of the way. And while they present a monk like lifestyle to us “ SBF owned a $40 million penthouse in the Bahamas, which he called home, and accrued a “local property portfolio worth an estimated three hundred million dollars.” Many of these “were luxury beachfront homes, including seven condominiums in an expensive resort community called Albany, costing almost $72 million.” SBF flew in private jets and purchased a $16.4 million mansion in the Bahamas under his parent’s name as a “vacation home.” FTX employees received free meals and had access to an “in-house Uber-like” transportation service.”

How many other SBF’s are out there? Well, there are definitely more of them…”Yet SBF wasn’t the only disgraced crypto billionaire courted by MacAskill and EA. As Kerry Vaughan reports, MacAskill earlier described Ben Delo “by name as an important new EA donor,” with Delo becoming a member of Giving What We Can, cofounded by MacAskill, in 2019. That same year, he entered into a partnership with the EA-aligned organization Open Philanthropy, “providing funds, initially in the $5 million per year range, to support” the organization’s mission. The EA community considered him to be “a major EA donor.” In 2020, Delo was charged with “willfully failing to establish, implement and maintain an anti-money laundering (“AML”) program at BitMEX,” a derivative trading and cryptocurrency exchange platform, and is currently serving 30 months probation after agreeing to a $10 million monetary penalty.”

The Washington Post reported, Open Philanthropy has already dished out $255.8 million for “longtermist” causes such as preventing superintelligent machines from taking over, $234 million into the EA community itself, for “movement building.”

Peter Thiel is a huge supporter of this movement. He gave the keynote address in 2013 at the EA Summit and funds x-risk research. There is also an inconvenient truth of FTX balance sheet had private Twitter stock listed as an asset and we all know about MacAskill interceding on SBF’s behalf offering to help Elon with the financing of buying Twitter. You wouldn’t do that unless you have SBF on a short chain.

Finally, the reader’s digest version of what EA is: it took the traditional idealist Peace Corps volunteer who wanted to make the world a better place and convinced them to be a Wall Street trader, Silicon Valley start up, etc and give EA a cut. They created a religion, sold it to young college students (mostly computer geeks) and asked them to tithe 10% or more to EA. That’s it in a nutshell. This ‘religious cult’ is using this money to create a global totalitarian system to control us. They fund their own studies (like SBF did to ivermectin) with real life deathly consequences.

The fundamental disconnect of EA and America is that in America we advocate for freedom and doing whatever you want with the wealth you earn. We want you to be successful and decide how to spend your own money. EA advocates you take a job that maximizes your earning potential even if it means selling your soul so you can make the most money. You tithe to EA and they decide how to effectively spend that money and none of it will make your life better. Their name for it: earning to give. In a recent podcast, Whitney Webb makes the observation that is appears MacAskill was SBF’s handler. I’m beginning to agree with her assessment. So again, you have to ask…how many more SBF’s are out there?

As a side note you won’t be at all surprised to learn Harvard has there own EA program and its in their Law school of all places, not the philosophy like the others. https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/effectivealtruism/about-us/about-effective-altruism/

Further researchable areas are effectivealtruism.org; Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford (Bostrom’s)'; Center for the Study of Existential Risk