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The video about libertarian charter cities as Effective Altruism akhully is up! (awful.systems)

submitted 10 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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The one promised in this post several months ago.

@collectivist spotted the finished product was out:

When he posted the finished video on youtube yesterday, there were some quite critical comments on youtube, the EA forum and even lesswrong. Unfortunately they got little to no upvotes while the video itself got enough karma to still be on the frontpage on both forums.

YouTube; LessWrong; EA Forum

the video is everything you'd expect. The power of classical liberalism and technology segues into uwu libertarianism. I made it about three minutes with a great deal of skipping.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I’m a few minutes into the video. If this really is a libertarian screed, then the fact that they choose Singapore as their opening example is wild.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Finished the vid (at 2x speed). uwu libertarian is right. There's no analysis or insight on any of the examples. A lot of details are being glossed over. If the world was 90% people like the vid creator, we'd all be living in company towns.

Also... is this an example of horseshoe theory?? Aren't charter cities just soviets/workers councils????

[–] Collectivist@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

This is another example of the dangers of wealth inequality. A lot of EAs tried to start a youtube channel (e.g.), but the only one that could get funded was this one, the one promoting bitcoins and charter cities. Now this is the largest EA channel, attracting more of those types and signalling clearly that if you want to succeed in EA you gotta please the capitalist funders.