really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism
Doesn’t look he was part of the EA movement proper (which is very clear about nonviolence), but could EA principles have played a part in his motivations, similarly to SBF?
This is a guy who got back surgery that was covered by his health insurance and then murdered the CEO of a different health insurance company. While EAs are always keen to self-flagellate over any possible bad thing that might have some tangential connection, I really think this one can be categorized under ‘crazy’ and ‘psychedelics’. To the extent he was motivated by ideology it doesn’t seem to be EA—the slogan he carved onto the bullet casings was a general anti-capitalist anti-insurance one.
Well, they could have. A lot of things are logically possible. Unless there is some direct evidence that he was motivated by EA principles, I don’t think we should worry too much about that possibility.
I don’t see a viable connection here, unless you make “EA principles” vague enough to cover an extremely wide space (e.g., considering ~consequentialism an “EA principle”).
According to this article, CEO shooter Luigi Malgione:
Doesn’t look he was part of the EA movement proper (which is very clear about nonviolence), but could EA principles have played a part in his motivations, similarly to SBF?
I read this more like the guy was lonely and wanted community so was looking for some kind of secular religion to provide grounding to his life.
I personally think people overrate people’s stated reasons for extreme behaviour and underrate the material circumstances of their life. In particular, loneliness https://time.com/6223229/loneliness-vulnerable-extremist-views/
(would genuinely be interested to hear counter arguments to this! I’m not a researcher so honestly no idea how to go about testing that hypothesis)
This is a guy who got back surgery that was covered by his health insurance and then murdered the CEO of a different health insurance company. While EAs are always keen to self-flagellate over any possible bad thing that might have some tangential connection, I really think this one can be categorized under ‘crazy’ and ‘psychedelics’. To the extent he was motivated by ideology it doesn’t seem to be EA—the slogan he carved onto the bullet casings was a general anti-capitalist anti-insurance one.
Well, they could have. A lot of things are logically possible. Unless there is some direct evidence that he was motivated by EA principles, I don’t think we should worry too much about that possibility.
I don’t see a viable connection here, unless you make “EA principles” vague enough to cover an extremely wide space (e.g., considering ~consequentialism an “EA principle”).