❝ If we say that that is just the way the world is, and always will be, and there is nothing we can do about it, we are not part of the left. ❞
— Peter Singer A Darwinian Left What is Essential to the Left?
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Critical Effective Altruism (C-EA)
A sequence of writings that critique the actually-existing EA movement for it's dominant ideological alignment with global techno-capitalism
by Max Ramsahoye
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'Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology' (Zizek)
'Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology' (Zizek)
Without incorporating critical thought, Forethought will reproduce the problem of power it seeks to solve
Without incorporating critical thought, Forethought will reproduce the problem of power it seeks to solve
'The fresh design of a meta-system, exerting meta-controls, is the only solution to our problems' (Beer)
'The fresh design of a meta-system, exerting meta-controls, is the only solution to our problems' (Beer)
Absent an actual plan for the form post-AGI society will take, Forethought will only produce vague philosophical notions, system-blind in their intent
Absent an actual plan for the form post-AGI society will take, Forethought will only produce vague philosophical notions, system-blind in their intent
‘There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.’ (Kuhn)
‘There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.’ (Kuhn)
‘The Power of Gods without the Wisdom of Gods’ as Capitalist Civilisational Unalignment
‘The Power of Gods without the Wisdom of Gods’ as Capitalist Civilisational Unalignment
‘If you are temporarily ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about your current state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon. A blank map does not correspond to a blank territory’
‘If you are temporarily ignorant about a phenomenon, that is a fact about your current state of mind, not a fact about the phenomenon. A blank map does not correspond to a blank territory’
Actually-existing reformist EA hinges on two dubious dominant ideological assumptions about the morality and immutability of capitalism
Actually-existing reformist EA hinges on two dubious dominant ideological assumptions about the morality and immutability of capitalism
❝ Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable. It is worth recalling that what is currently called realistic was itself once 'impossible'.. Conversely, what was once eminently possible is now deemed unrealistic. ❞
— Mark Fischer Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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