Lately it seems like many in the "effective altruism" movement has gone down a rabbit hole of AI crackpottery. These people will tell you with a straight face t

Lately it seems like many in the "effective altruism" movement has gone down a rabbit hole of AI crackpottery. These people will tell you with a straight face that a postulated runaway malevolent AI is the greatest threat to humanity. Meanwhile, mankind continues gradually burning itself to death and the most advanced machine learning algorithms in the world recommend I buy a different edition of the book I just bought.