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>Effective altruism is the ideology that permeates OpenAI’s nonprofit board and, broadly speaking, EAs are obsessed with the possibility of human extinction via
by cdchn 3y ago
>Effective altruism is the ideology that permeates OpenAI’s nonprofit board and, broadly speaking, EAs are obsessed with the possibility of human extinction via AI superintelligence.
I thought that was "e/acc" not Effective Altruism (that thing that FTX SBF espoused)
- andreareina 3y agoThere's a lot of overlap. Sean Carroll did a podcast episode with Will MacAskill, some of it going into how EA kind of leads into "prevent civilisation-ending situations", though I don't remember if they touched on AI specifically.
- cdchn 3y agoI'm sure theres some overlap especially between those who espouse one or both philosophies but I think the author might be confusing one for the other.