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# Continuously Effective Altruism

As a curious individual I have studied numerous communities in my short time.

One of the online communities that struck out as highly interesting and worth practising a little bit of anthropology in is the LessWrong community.

Or as I would like to describe them (from my observations) as the *MoreWrong*

## Who are the LessWrong proponents?

Folk such as **Eliezer Yudkowsky**

TLDR? He's a questionable man who has designed his own personal philosophy that essentially excuses himself from the occasional deviant behavour (not going to cover details here)

I once upon a time was a LessWrong'er too. Until it became abundantly clear that where the entire goal of the society was to be *Less Wrong in ones thinking* what it devulged into was a specific set of ideologies.

Yes, the Less Wrong'ers - The good samaritans of being... Less Wrong - became victim to the same human behaviour that causes distrust at societal scales. Namely, confirming ones own bias - aka becoming ideological.

## Who are the effective altruists?

Sam Bankman-Fried is probably the most famous self proclaimed *effective altruist* today.

Although unfortuntaly he seems to me more effective as a capitalist than a pilanthropist.. go figure!

....okay...

Let's assume the best of Sam's intentions, he is redistributing wealth for good reason!

Well that might be a better argument if the wealth he is accumulating came from *the rich capitalist pigs* but in fact his flashbots and MEV front running contracts are taking money from retail investors. *This is beginning to sound like the same story of wealth accumulation we always hear, correct?*

Each and every day his Alameda Research team extracts hundreds of thousands of US dollars from retail investors, the very same people Sam is trying to save from the *big bad man*...

Now there is nothing wrong with effective trading strategies, but there is an opportunity missed each and every single day I will detail below.

## Proposing a better core model - taking inspiration from modern Software Development methodologies

Continuously Effective Altruism is the process of continuously applying altruist methodologies to everything one does.

It is not, make a bunch of money and then figure out what to do with it later.

It is about delegating a portion of ones profits to pilanthropic activies. It is something many companies are doing today already!

It is about building a business pipeline in such as way that is can effectively and *continuously* controbute to social goods and social causes.

## What is the key difference?

The key difference is that altruistic outcomes must be acheived on a daily and as-regular-as-possible-basis.

This can include

- Donating portions of revenue to charity
- Reducing cost of delivering goods and services
- Making pilanthropic motivations a core tenet of the business philisophy
- Unlicensing patents


# NOTE, unfinished.... This needs more work for clarity of the underlying message..



A better way to reach equitable outcomes by applying a highly successful software principle

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