Ideas
37 min
Effective Altruism: Good Intentions, Bad Epistemics
A philosophy about saving lives produced a man who'd gamble the planet.
Effective altruism argued that doing good could be optimised like an equation — and that the most rational good should be pursued at the expense of the merely good. Sam Bankman-Fried was its most prominent practitioner. His logic and his fraud were, in the end, the same logic.
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About Mythio
One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.