Will CEA be mentioned in Going Infinite by Michael Lewis (at least twice)?
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This question results positively if Going Infinite contains a mention of the Centre of Effective Altruism at least two times (in at least two different sentences).

The mentions can be either in the foreword, introduction, or any other chapter – including footnotes. If only mentioned in sources it does not count.

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Question about the book: Is the title a reference to his willingness to play the st petersberg game or similar philosophical principles about EV-maximization? If so, does it acknowledge that money has diminishing returns on utility and so a st petersberg game cannot exist in the real world and a better rationalist wouldn't play like SBF and SBF's own community could have told him that?


It probably doesn't acknowledge that part. I don't know. It's possible the EA community actually lacks those sensitivities, and there is this split between the OG rationalists and EA.
I imagine he would have had that conversation with MacAskill at some point, and I know from reading MacAskill's takes on FDT that he's way below the rationalist community in analytic philosophy.

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Page 74, 86, 86 = 3 times.

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@HenriThunberg Thanks for checking, resolved to yes.

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