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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, but he's into Effective Altruism, which is yet another thing you just don't want to talk to people about.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t even want to know what that is. And since he’s a billionaire fraudster or whatever, I’ll assume it’s complete bullshit.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

It's complete bullshit, you lose nothing by completely ignoring it.

But, if you want to be amused and/or outraged by the bullshit, Wired had a good article about it recently:

https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/