> Either way, I now feel that the most sane and practical thing to advocate for is that there should be less institutional power available to be captured by ext

> Either way, I now feel that the most sane and practical thing to advocate for is that there should be less institutional power available to be captured by extremists. I agree with this too! Which is why I think it's important the article calls out the institutional power of YC and the risk of it being captured by extremists! Frankly, leave the question of connection to white supremacy (under whatever definition) aside - as someone who was a regular Less Wrong reader, seeing Y Combinator and the other agents of Silicon Valley power go "All right, we will invest heavily in building a friendly AI under our definition of friendly," just by itself, is kind of a worst-case scenario. I don't think the interests of Valley investors are quite fully aligned the interests of humanity at large, but it's Valley investors that have the most ability to make AGI happen, and they've decided to start work. The only reason I don't find it terrifying is that I don't really agree with the Rationalists' arguments about it. But they do, and they're smart people.