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It's also the only part the rich loud ones are focused on. Musk has an awful to tweet about AGI risk and not so much deworming (or, a more poignant example, the
by morelisp 4y ago
It's also the only part the rich loud ones are focused on. Musk has an awful to tweet about AGI risk and not so much deworming (or, a more poignant example, the Flint water crisis; or, a more direct example, Tesla's sales fraud leading to non-G AIs killing people).
For the record, I don't think people like Musk, or, say, Andreesen or Altman are EAs themselves. But they are the kings picking court jesters like Yudkowsky who then have the resources to (re)define the movement.
- rbanffy 4y agoI believe the first big risk of AI is job loss due to automation and the consequences of that for economies. There is a point we run out of bullshit jobs. Also capitalism’s cyclic nature is getting more turbulent as cycles become shorter and start interfering with previous and future ones.
- jefftk 4y agoI don't think Yudkowsky's influence in EA has much to do with Musk or Altman. His LessWrong blogging was already pretty widely read within EA ten years ago. (I would also say his influence has decreased a lot over that time, as he is writing much less now, and there are a lot of other voices on AI risk.)