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> opaque organisations with vague goals and zero evidence they can achieve them, whose only thing in common with the highly evidence-focused aid agencies is tha
by kevinmchugh 4y ago
> opaque organisations with vague goals and zero evidence they can achieve them, whose only thing in common with the highly evidence-focused aid agencies is that their pitch is nerdier than the average nonprofit.
Isn't it substantially worse than this? The EA people generally are, or are closely tied to a lot of the AI risk people, right?
- jefftk 4y agoThe ties are close, yes, but primarily because EAs who became convinced that AI risk was the most important thing to work on then went and worked on it. Similarly, a large fraction of people at the Nucleic Acid Observatory (where I now work) are EAs, for similar reasons: becoming convinced that this is what most needed doing.