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by whatshisface 1299 days ago
The only way to get rich with a clean conscience is to use your money to buy social status at cool charities (like the MIT media lab) while keeping most of it for yourself. There's no way that starving kids in Africa can offer the kind of status that semicharitable PR foundations do. For one thing, they can't write articles like this
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This is probably why EA is swerving away from impactful large-scale disease prevention type stuff and into paying each other to worry about HAL 9000.