Epistemically modest argument:
* Freedom, to it's fullest extent, is a basic right
* If one solely cares about economic progress, the vast majority of the wealth generated over the last two decades -- in an exponential rate -- was both generated on the free internet and by people who, in the counterfactual where malevolent actions would have blocked it, we're not holders of the skill and network requested to generate said wealth.
Less in the Effective Altruism sense and more in the "private companies building technology to persevere freedom and limitless education for the young" sense. [IIRC Founders Fund et al have thankfully invests in a couple of companies in those area..]
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Epistemically modest argument: * Freedom, to it's fullest extent, is a basic right * If one solely cares about economic progress, the vast majority of the wealth generated over the last two decades -- in an exponential rate -- was both generated on the free internet and by people who, in the counterfactual where malevolent actions would have blocked it, we're not holders of the skill and network requested to generate said wealth.
Less in the Effective Altruism sense and more in the "private companies building technology to persevere freedom and limitless education for the young" sense. [IIRC Founders Fund et al have thankfully invests in a couple of companies in those area..]