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SneerClub Classic: Big Yud's Mad Men Cosplay (awful.systems)

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Yudkowsky writes,

How can Effective Altruism solve the meta-level problem where almost all of the talented executives and ops people were in 1950 and now they're dead and there's fewer and fewer surviving descendants of their heritage every year and no blog post I can figure out how to write could even come close to making more people being good executives?

Because what EA was really missing is collusion to hide the health effects of tobacco smoking.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, uh...

"almost all of the talented executives and ops people were in 1950" ::> what the ever-living fuck? Citations needed. Many, many citations, because what would be special about the people born in 1900-1925 to distinguish them from the people born in 1950-1975 or any other particular period?
Also, why would anyone think that they didn't have children?
or that executive/operational success is heritable
or even repeatable?
"no blog post I can figure out how to write could even come close to making more people being good executives" ::> I'm not sure anyone proceeding from these unexamined assumptions could write a blog post explaining how to make pickles.