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Caring about one thing substitutes for caring about other things. Shocking. Most charitable foundation on the left and the right may focus on one problem but m
by joe_the_user 4y ago
Caring about one thing substitutes for caring about other things. Shocking.
Most charitable foundation on the left and the right may focus on one problem but make nods to it's connections to others. I know a lot of lesswrong people acknowledge climate change is real and Covid is a problem but raise the point that "this is so important we have to ignore other potential problems" but by doing this they alien those who might care about their important problem.
It's funny 'cause Eliezer and other have realized that the way corporations go about things means they won't care about safety here, just as they don't about safety anywhere else (say East Palestine). Yet these people have burned all bridges with those who are generally concerned about corporate behavior.
(I'm personally not as concerned only because I'd see AGI as further than they imagine but if GPT-X could unsafe, then Eliezer's correct you might as well dig a hole somewhere).
- yanderekko 4y ago>Yet these people have burned all bridges with those who are generally concerned about corporate behavior. Well, because there's the obvious risk that EA/rationalists just become another blue tribe identity group if the focus on actual effective altruism is replaced with unquestionable dogmas, which is really the only way you get stuff like people believing that climate change is going to lead to civilizational collapse by the end of the century or that donating to BLM is a good use of charity dollars or whatever. I don't know where the margin of optimal pandering is here, but I'm pretty sure that bending the knee to whatever the blue tribe's moral panic du jour is is going too far.
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