The author clarified that they were not saying people who believed in effective altruism or identified as rationalists were secretly Hitler. They argued that the movements had deeply troubling philosophical origins and that the ideas they promoted led many young people down those paths.
Good AI alignment is necessarily EA adjacent. But EA failed to derive a global morality, not for lack of good intentions or intelligence, but because human rationality is a brittle tool, even if you are a good rationalist, and most people prefer to either muddle through or to #AIAlignment #EffectiveAltruism #Rationality #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
