It never occcurred to me before just how much the appeal of "Effective Altruism" was due to it tickling the egos of the biggest dipshits in the country. Every other dogooder is a dumb shit who is doing it wrong, but WE are clever boys indeed!
Then when it merged with "longtermism" it no longer required any actual dogooding, just tuttutting the fools who weren't fearing the activation of Skynet.
