The Effective Altruists, fresh off being punched repeatedly in the head by the collapse of the FTX crypto grifters, noticed Max Tegmark - who has been deep in the rationalist bros for a decade or more - messing with the Nazis, offering money to the Nazis from his 501(c)3, and going on a podcast for this particular group of Nazis.
Tegmark has posted his response. It makes it worse.
Tegmark commented:
The Future of Life Institute makes no apologies for engaging with many people across the immensely diverse political spectrum, because our mission is so important that it needs broad support from all sectors of society.
let me remind you we’re talking about actual neo-Nazis here.
He also denies the neo-Nazis in question are neo-Nazis, though other commenters note Nya Dagbladet’s articles promoting holocaust revisionism, vaccine denial, and the campaign to “defend ethnic rights”.
Max Tegmark’s brother writes for Nya Dagbladet. Tegmark’s reply when questioned on this in particular: “My brother never worked there. He published some articles there, but they’ve never paid him anything.” WELL I GUESS THAT’S FINE THEN
I don’t think Sweden is one of the European countries that bans Nazism and hate speech outright; I’m kind of curious about this though:
I’m guessing being certified as charitable is easy, the grant is interesting, albeit not very relevant.
they don’t mind being “naughty” and snickers at the normies who don’t get that fascism/a monarchy would be the best political position to meet their “charity” needs.
so… his brother believed in their cause so much he was willing to work for free?
and in the next breath
10/10 Janus face, no notes
Is the misspelling of the neo-Nazi group’s name intentional?
Oh Max, such potential… I guess even actual geniuses are not immune from becoming shitheads.