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1. Zigurd · 1790533684 · focus · HN ↗

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   1. ok123456 · 1790536256 · focus · HN ↗

      Something about the lack of socialization leads tech people into these off-putting ego cults.

      While it's not exactly the traditional Randian objectivism you're alluding to, effective altruism adds an extra step: it ostensibly helps people. But, ultimately, it's a distinction without difference: no one escapes the dialectic. Individuals, especially ones cloistered off from the world, are not good arbiters of what will make the world better, or of understanding the higher-order effects of their actions.

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