The brain rot required to call the EA people evil while praising the guy that did agree to give the Pentagon autonomous weapons...
The brain rot required to call the EA people evil while praising the guy that did agree to give the Pentagon autonomous weapons...
The EA people who give money directly to poor people are great.
The EA people who decided to spend oodles of money working on AI ostensibly to prevent an insane thought experiment and then converted that effort into a for-profit corporation while insisting that actually giving money to the poor is bad because you'll have greater future utility by spending it on AI are worthy of scorn.
> The EA people who decided to spend oodles of money working on AI ostensibly to prevent an insane thought experiment and then converted that effort into a for-profit corporation while insisting that actually giving money to the poor is bad because you'll have greater future utility by spending it on AI are worthy of scorn.
That was the e/acc guys though. Different acronym, even though they were a spinoff from the original EA guys.
The "effective altruism" people speedran the philosophical problem that good intentions do not necessarily produce good outcomes, far faster than any Communist revolution.