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Where do EAs advocate for harming people today? I'm not aware of any nefarious outcomes that come from caring about making the future go well.
by yboris 4y ago
Where do EAs advocate for harming people today? I'm not aware of any nefarious outcomes that come from caring about making the future go well.
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- eddsh1994 4y agoI guess the argument they have is if you have someone suffering today and $10,000 will end their suffering, longtermist EA’s will argue that $10k should be spent on AI alignment research because theoretically AI could end human life & theoretically there could be trillions more humans if that doesn’t happy so trillions of lives > 1 life (valuing existing and future lives the same). I don’t subscribe to this view but it does exist and ‘harming people today’ to make ‘the future go well’ is a vocal minority within EA.