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David from The Mind Killer joins us. We got to talking about the FTX collapse and some of the waves it sent through the Effective Altruism community. Afterwards David helps us out with personal finance.
0:00:00 Intro
The Sequences In A Zoomer-Readable Format
FTX: The $32B implosion – a good fast roundup of what the hell happened
Yudkowsky’s essay on FTX Future Fund money that’s been paid out
Yudkowsky’s essay warning against humans trying to use utilitarianism 14 years ago
Bunch of Twitter – The reason we have excess money to give; Robert Wiblin; a god complex; conflating utilitarianism with naive utilitarianism; the ultimate take-away
Our recent episode on Virtue Ethics
Erik Hoel criticizing EA
More details about the FTX stuff will be on the next episode of The Mind Killer
“Investment is a bet that a thing will be important in the future” – David
Nassim Taleb’s Barbell Investment Strategy
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page, your support is most rational, and totally effective. Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
none
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: (for really real this time)
Absolute Authority
Infinite Certainty
By The Bayesian Conspiracy4.7
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David from The Mind Killer joins us. We got to talking about the FTX collapse and some of the waves it sent through the Effective Altruism community. Afterwards David helps us out with personal finance.
0:00:00 Intro
The Sequences In A Zoomer-Readable Format
FTX: The $32B implosion – a good fast roundup of what the hell happened
Yudkowsky’s essay on FTX Future Fund money that’s been paid out
Yudkowsky’s essay warning against humans trying to use utilitarianism 14 years ago
Bunch of Twitter – The reason we have excess money to give; Robert Wiblin; a god complex; conflating utilitarianism with naive utilitarianism; the ultimate take-away
Our recent episode on Virtue Ethics
Erik Hoel criticizing EA
More details about the FTX stuff will be on the next episode of The Mind Killer
“Investment is a bet that a thing will be important in the future” – David
Nassim Taleb’s Barbell Investment Strategy
Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong?
Our Patreon page, your support is most rational, and totally effective. Also merch!
Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast
LessWrong Sequence Posts Discussed in this Episode:
none
Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: (for really real this time)
Absolute Authority
Infinite Certainty

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