Caroline Ellison (Alameda Research CEO) Deleted Her Goodreads Account (opens in new tab)

> effective altruism who seems to be part of a conspiracy to have pilfered billions of dollars from investor

If I'm understanding you correctly - which perhaps I'm not - I don't know as I agree. Are you saying that the concept of "effective altruism" is "part of a consp..."?

The concept of effective altruism, as far as I know, is simply to maximize the good-accomplished-per-dollar. In the past, after being pointed there by proponents of effective altruism, I've donated to organizations giving malaria nets, etc.

If you are saying this, I'd appreciate knowing more about what backs up your claim.

But if you're saying that there's some entity cloaking itself as 'effective altruism' but carrying out a Ponzi scheme, then that I'd have no opinion on.

> She was an advocate of effective altruism who seems to be part of a conspiracy

What if she gets much more happy about keeping the money than those it used to belong to?

Then surely this is most effective.

Effective altruism has lead to funny conclusions in the past such as:

Spend all the money on animal welfare (PeTA), or spend no money on the environment (Bjørn Lomborg).

But it does kind of feel like whenever you package and reallocate some risk, there is some tradeoff in which you might be increasing systemic risk but it's opaque and hard to measure.

This is crazy in the same review than the one that's talking about fiduciary duties.

Money is not just numbers on a paper.

She is destroying lives of millions of people.

This doesn't explain why anyone should care about whether she does or doesn't have a Goodreads account.

I guess I'm still struggling with a question of "so what?"