Elaine Burke

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2,772 appearances 23 recordings 4 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

Elaine Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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For Tech’s Sake · AI’s doomer cult · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

A lot of people would see that as a good thing that they give their money back. matched

When you're a billionaire though like, you know, giving away millions is only a tiny fraction of matched

Overall wealthy. matched

But it also means that like they decide what gets funded in many ways as well. matched

And you can see how kind of agendas um can take place there. matched

And then this idea of effective altruism started bubbling up and this has been around for a while in that community and it's about matched

applying rational and empirical thinking to philanthropy. matched

But really it's about, you know, if you accrue enough wealth that you can create philanthropic institutions or decide where you donate things and support what you want to support, you can kind of dictate the direction of things in many ways. matched

It's effectively another form of wealth controlling the world, which makes me really uncomfortable. matched

The idea is that you are more matched

That's why Sam Bankmanfried, who was a big part of this community, had to steal out all all that money 'cause matched

He had to get all the money in order to be philanthropic about it. matched

Um, and he, if people don't remember, he was the the cryptocurrency mogul that was disgraced because of the fraud that he committed. matched

And uh he was also an early investor in anthropic and gave lots of money to the rationalist community. matched

And the rationalist community kind of spawns out of this matched

effective altruism movement in some ways. matched

This overlaps between the two. matched

But it's matched

It's not to be confused with rationalists from the past. matched

Rationalism is like a an ideology and a philosophy from way, way back. matched

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