"The most common question people ask me is “Why do they do it?” That is a hard question to answer, but today I will answer it.

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The first and most persistent oddity I ran into was the Effective Altruists’ willingness to lie, then admit to lying, then lie again."

https://x.com/brianchau57/status/2098035812365463637

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648088