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Derailing a little here but I have to say I'm not a fan of implying this kind of 1:1 link between having an interest or participating in effective altruism and
by maeil 4y ago
Derailing a little here but I have to say I'm not a fan of implying this kind of 1:1 link between having an interest or participating in effective altruism and the AI ethics scene. The Venn diagram is not a circle, and the overlapping part may well be a loud minority. I get that "cultists" may be talking about just that minority but it doesn't much read like that.
- astrange 4y agoWell, GiveWell and GiveDirectly are good, I've given to them. But every time I meet someone who talks about this/has related keywords in their twitter profile/is in a Vox explainer, they always have strange ideas about existential risks and how we're going to be enslaved by evil computers or hit by asteroids or reincarnated by future robot torture gods. I think as soon as you decide you're going to be "effective" using objective rational calculations, you're just opening yourself to adversarial attacks where someone tells you a story about an evil Russell's teapot and you assign it infinite badness points so now you need to spend infinite effort on it even though it's silly. You need a meta-rational step where you just use your brain normally, decide it's silly and ignore it without doing math.