David Boree

There were a lot of farm boys who were just like, I guess I'll go run in a machine gun nest until this is done. Yeah, exactly. There were a lot of 16-year-old Russians who were like, I guess I'm going to walk in a bullet, you know? Like, that's how evil gets fought, usually, unfortunately.

There were a lot of farm boys who were just like, I guess I'll go run in a machine gun nest until this is done. Yeah, exactly. There were a lot of 16-year-old Russians who were like, I guess I'm going to walk in a bullet, you know? Like, that's how evil gets fought, usually, unfortunately.

Yeah. Yeah, or a shitload of guys in a lab figuring out how to make corn that has higher yields so people don't starve, right? These are really how huge world problems get solved.

Yeah. Yeah, or a shitload of guys in a lab figuring out how to make corn that has higher yields so people don't starve, right? These are really how huge world problems get solved.

Yeah. Yeah, or a shitload of guys in a lab figuring out how to make corn that has higher yields so people don't starve, right? These are really how huge world problems get solved.

Yeah, it's not people who have been touched, and it's certainly not people who have entirely based their understanding on the world from quotes from Star Wars and Harry Potter. And some of this comes from just like – this is a normal deranged way of thinking that happens to a lot of people in just Western – I think a lot of this leads to –

Yeah, it's not people who have been touched, and it's certainly not people who have entirely based their understanding on the world from quotes from Star Wars and Harry Potter. And some of this comes from just like – this is a normal deranged way of thinking that happens to a lot of people in just Western – I think a lot of this leads to –

Yeah, it's not people who have been touched, and it's certainly not people who have entirely based their understanding on the world from quotes from Star Wars and Harry Potter. And some of this comes from just like – this is a normal deranged way of thinking that happens to a lot of people in just Western – I think a lot of this leads to –

why you get very comfortable middle-class people joining these very aggressive fascist movements in the West, like in Germany, it's like middle-class people, mostly like middle-class and upper middle-class people in the US, especially among like these street fighting, you know, proud boy types. It's because it's not because they're like suffering and desperate. They're not starving in the streets.

why you get very comfortable middle-class people joining these very aggressive fascist movements in the West, like in Germany, it's like middle-class people, mostly like middle-class and upper middle-class people in the US, especially among like these street fighting, you know, proud boy types. It's because it's not because they're like suffering and desperate. They're not starving in the streets.

why you get very comfortable middle-class people joining these very aggressive fascist movements in the West, like in Germany, it's like middle-class people, mostly like middle-class and upper middle-class people in the US, especially among like these street fighting, you know, proud boy types. It's because it's not because they're like suffering and desperate. They're not starving in the streets.

It's because they're bored and they want to feel like they're fighting an epic war against evil.

It's because they're bored and they want to feel like they're fighting an epic war against evil.

It's because they're bored and they want to feel like they're fighting an epic war against evil.

Yeah, so there's a piece, I mean, I think there's a piece of this that originally, it's just from this is something in our culture, but there's also a major chunk of this gets supercharged by the kind of thinking that's common in EA and rationalist spaces. So rationalists and effective altruists are not ever thinking like, Hey, how do we as a species fix these major problems, right?

Yeah, so there's a piece, I mean, I think there's a piece of this that originally, it's just from this is something in our culture, but there's also a major chunk of this gets supercharged by the kind of thinking that's common in EA and rationalist spaces. So rationalists and effective altruists are not ever thinking like, Hey, how do we as a species fix these major problems, right?

Yeah, so there's a piece, I mean, I think there's a piece of this that originally, it's just from this is something in our culture, but there's also a major chunk of this gets supercharged by the kind of thinking that's common in EA and rationalist spaces. So rationalists and effective altruists are not ever thinking like, Hey, how do we as a species fix these major problems, right?

They're thinking, how do I make myself better, optimize myself to be incredible? And how do I, like... fix the major problems of the world alongside my mentally superpowered friends, right? These are very individual focused philosophies and attitudes, right? And so they do lend themselves to people who think that like we are heroes who are uniquely empowered to save the world, right?

They're thinking, how do I make myself better, optimize myself to be incredible? And how do I, like... fix the major problems of the world alongside my mentally superpowered friends, right? These are very individual focused philosophies and attitudes, right? And so they do lend themselves to people who think that like we are heroes who are uniquely empowered to save the world, right?

They're thinking, how do I make myself better, optimize myself to be incredible? And how do I, like... fix the major problems of the world alongside my mentally superpowered friends, right? These are very individual focused philosophies and attitudes, right? And so they do lend themselves to people who think that like we are heroes who are uniquely empowered to save the world, right?