> Calling donating money to malaria nets or deworming "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper" is like calling modern physics or modern cancer treatment "

> Calling donating money to malaria nets or deworming "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper" is like calling modern physics or modern cancer treatment "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper". Physics manages simple models and the the efficacy of cancer treatment is (I guess) pretty measurable. You can’t compare these things to the Nerds in the West → Africa pipeline because of the mountains of variables that are layered on top. Just the sheer amount of humans that have to be involved, for one. I’m glad that we were able to figure out that those “fundamental assumptions” were not, in fact, the bare fundamental assumptions. They were just the fundamental assumptions that EA proponents thought that they needed because they thought that things like Utilitarianism, empiricism, etc. just followed immediately from them. Hence how you are trying to logic nerd my simple, primitive, chimp-like, intuitive list of assumptions and get me to either write whole thesis of axioms or to concede that Utilitarianism+empiricism etc. are the one true tools to rule all. But I am unfortanetely too low-IQ and not committed enough to some silly nerd morality hobby to write a whole thesis in order to try to convince people that trying to prevent the AI Apocalypse should not be the topmost concern of people’s precious 10%.