Lord, this is scary.
Dustin Moskovitz sponsored both 2019 Event201 AND the 2021 Monkeypox simulation.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX company is a key provider of hundreds of small satellites who’s uses surely includes the global control grid, needed to render mandatory digital ID + cashless digital money the ultimate tyrannical control system, right down to the level of the individual, using real-time data, algorithms & AI (not excluding human intervention, at their will).
Again, I’m not saying any of these billionaires hold effective altruism views, let alone their extremist forms, but we can see how powerful any of these people could be. Until recently, I had not appreciated the number of ways in which modern (vulnerable) civilization could be seriously upended.
I now appreciate that, the more dependent we collectively become on things happening in real time, the more vulnerable we become even to quite short term disruption.
Not such a big leap to creating the conditions where a large proportion of human life on earth depends on continuation of complex systems as they are.
Mike

“Effective altruists may want to use weapons of mass destruction, but they are mostly young people without the ability to acquire them, so it's not a serious concern”.

*Wrong. EA has had enormous influence on the rich and powerful, including governments. A number of billionaires have now adopted effective altruism for their philanthropy, such as Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz. Elon Musk may not donate according to EA, but he does share the popular NUE idea that the world is a simulation, so he is a high risk for recruitment. It is very possible for powerful people to be influenced by NUE*.