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EA [advertises itself as being open to criticism](https://x.com/RemmeltE/status/1623254338352349185). But this is a lie. **EA likes the criticisms that it likes** — those targeting specific components within its framework, requiring minor tweaks and adjustments. But **if you criticize** ***key aspects*** **upon which the framework is based, you will be ostracized, attacked, and maybe even threatened with violence**.
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
It's executives and their shareholders attempting to grow company profits, dividends and their own compensation by introducing a new form of automation that not only justifies cost-cutting, but operates by lessening the economic value of the human-authored works that are used for 'AI training', while fracturing worker solidarity by encouraging them to collaborate with genAI "copilots" rather than each other.
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney Is Right to Call genAI a Political Topic - It's a Mechanism of Class War
News Editor
The growth of the exploiters’ revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the idea that work is beneath human dignity, particularly any form of hand work. We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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