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About page for Where's Your Ed At, Ed Zitron's newsletter and podcast taking a critical look at the tech industry, including its coverage of AI companies and spending.
Techdirt opinion piece (April 2024) arguing the effective altruism movement shifted its money and attention from global poverty to AI existential risk.
Why I recommend it: Openly argumentative and from 2024. Effective altruists dispute this framing; see Holden Karnofsky's and Luke Muehlhauser's profiles for their side.
Free long-form Truthdig critique of effective altruism and longtermism, tracing the movement's funding, scandals and eugenic intellectual roots.
From the site: The multibillion-dollar Effective Altruism movement makes rich people feel good about being rich — to hell with the bad publicity.
Why I recommend it: Pointed and openly hostile to its subject. Read it next to the movement's own writing so you can judge which claims are documented and which are argument.
Cory Doctorow essay on AI hype, market incentives, and who bears the cost of the buildout.
Why I recommend it: Doctorow is a useful counterweight to any week where the AI news feels inevitable.
Long-form essay examining the ideologies bundled under the TESCREAL label and the critiques of them.
