The New York Post
A progressive cult-like movement known as Effective Altruism (EA) has embedded over 80 journalists in mainstream newsrooms to spread its ‘philosophy,’ a Post investigation can reveal.
The billionaire-backed movement aims to solve the world’s problems, but believes government welfare and foreign aid is inefficient and easily corrupted and that unchecked AI will destroy us all. Their beliefs can be summed up as:
- Earn to give: Send 10-50% of your earnings to philanthropic causes.
- Global scope: Prioritize causes like climate change, global health, poverty, pandemics.
- Impartiality: Everyone’s well-being matters equally, with no one person’s happiness or health above another’s.
- Calculated reasoning: Make philanthropic decisions based on cold hard data and algorithms, not emotion. Money goes to what data says will save the most lives.
- AI Doomerism: AI poses a catastrophic, existential risk to humanity that requires urgent research
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