The Silicon Valley elite went all in on the movement because it created a justification for the weath-hoarding, antisocial oligarchy they wanted to build for themselves.
“Thought precedes action like lightning precedes thunder,” wrote the poet Heinrich Heine. “This has been demonstrated by effective altruism, an ethical doctrine devised by Oxford philosophers that has passed from the ivory tower to the corridors of power with astonishing speed. Effective altruists flood Silicon Valley, are part of the staff of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies... and alarm the Trump administration. “The Unite…