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It's truly astonishing how many impactful things Thiel has his hands in very very early. PayPal, SpaceX, Facebook, Ethereum, Palantir, DeepMind, OpenAI, Yudkows
by reducesuffering 3y ago
It's truly astonishing how many impactful things Thiel has his hands in very very early. PayPal, SpaceX, Facebook, Ethereum, Palantir, DeepMind, OpenAI, Yudkowsky, Figma founder was a Thiel Fellow, Seasteading, successful election of an Ohio Senator, etc.
Also, it is an ugly stain on NYT's reputation to have "Mr. Yudkowsky was a leader in a community of people who called themselves Rationalists or, in later years, effective altruists." as a false statement in here, when it was written by Cade Metz who supposedly did his due diligence on these people by writing a whole 'nother article about them. You can't claim unfamiliarity. Rationalists and Effective Altruists have overlap but are distinct. They aren't the same.
- junofan 3y agoDidn’t Yudkowsky coin the term “effective altruism”? The author’s not saying the two groups are the same, but that Yudkowsky’s community called themselves one thing and then later, another thing.
- jefftk 3y agoHe didn't coin it: the movement's use of that name goes back to the Oxford group in 2011: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9a7xMXoSiQs3EYPA2/the-history-of-the-term-effective-altruism https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9a7xMXoSiQs3EYPA2/... (He did use it once before then in a 2007 blog post, but if we're counting they sort of thing then https://archive.is/4d9oC https://archive.is/4d9oC from Anand in 2003 is even older.)
- abecedarius 3y agoThey're overlapping communities with some common descent and interaction. Saying these are changing names for the same thing is just wrong.