#EffectiveAltruist

2024-03-09
NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of ‘effective altruist’ AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is facing an internal crisis as staff members and scientists have threatened to resign over the anticipated appointment of Paul Christiano to a crucial, though non-political, position at the agency’s newly-formed US AI Safety Institute (AISI), according to at least two sources with direct knowledge of the situation, who asked to remain anonymous.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nist-staffers-revolt-against-potential-appointment-of-effective-altruist-ai-researcher-to-us-ai-safety-institute/

Good for them! #longtermist / #EffectiveAltruist / #TESCREAL people are cultists and have no place in government. They're obsessed with fantasies like #xrisk that are disconnected from reality and distract from the actual harms #AI is already causing here on Earth. It's precisely the same phenomenon as holding endless discussions about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin while ignoring that people are suffering. It sounds like Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo might be a Kool-aid drinker herself or is sympathetic to the viewpoints of the Kool-aid drinkers.

From her Wikipedia entry:
Gina Marie Raimondo...an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist
Emphasis mine.

It's alarming that this is even happening, and you know the fix is in because they tried to rush the appointment without informing staffers ahead of time. I hope #NIST staffers prevail.

cc: @timnitGebru@dair-community.social @xriskology@mastodon.bida.im
meehawlmeehawl
2023-12-31

cultists are ludicrous, but I'm looking forward to a "Warriors" style showdown between the messianic and Xtian fundies in DC. They are both into different styles of mutually exclusionary kink. It could be delicious.

politico.com/news/2023/12/30/a

For other East Coast observers of the EA phenomenon in the AI and biosecurity fields, the weirdness doesn’t end there. They say EAs have brought the San Francisco Bay Area’s unique cultural milieu to the nation’s capital. Like their compatriots in Silicon Valley, they tend to live together in group homes: Multiple tech-policy professionals pointed to a house in Northwest Washington where young EAs rest their heads before fanning out to their respective think tanks, agencies and Hill offices.Those same observers also spoke of a propensity toward polyamorous relationships within the EA community in Washington — a phenomenon identified by both critics and EAs themselves as an intrinsic part of the movement’s Northern California chapters.
Ecologia Digitaljosemurilo@mato.social
2023-11-12

"The #EffectiveAltruist movement has had a terrible year. Its most prominent member, #SamBankmanFried was just found guilty of all 7 charges against him. But the FTX fiaso wasn't the only scandal that rocked EA.."
#tecsreal

truthdig.com/articles/effectiv

FeralRobotsFeralRobots
2023-10-30

I've said it before but I guess I need to keep saying it: Any discussion of needs to be very clear that the "future people" are entirely hypothetical, & the probability of their existence in most contemporary scenarios is astronomically improbable.

Similar caveats apply for all the arguments I've heard - & in general needs to be applied whenever you're looking at , as well.

2023-04-26

TIL that Sean McElwee, the now disgraced Democratic pollster and think tanker, is an EA (#EffectiveAltruist) wapo.st/40C1dzP

legumancer Davylegumancer@tech.lgbt
2023-04-11

I just wrote an article for #EffectiveAltruism forum about the work @trans_rescue is doing to help at-risk LGBTQ+ people of all sorts escape Uganda. I had the opportunity to talk with @AnneOgborn about what's needed to safely transport someone out of Uganda and help them get settled and on their feet in their new country, so if you're curious about Trans Rescue's work, it may be worth a read.

For any #EffectiveAltruist folks here on Mastodon, my takeaway was that, because Trans Rescue was in the right place at the right time with existing expertise and resources to help LGBTQ+ people in East Africa, they're able to do this important work very cost effectively.

forum.effectivealtruism.org/po

Spartaco Pécora {🇻🇪 ⋂ 🇮🇹}zpartacoos@qoto.org
2021-12-17

Mastodon has been feeling kinda dead lately. Each week for the last few months I use it less and less. Why? I don't know. Perhaps the difficulty of finding engaging sub communities?

Anybody know people here who post regularly and are into:

* Effective Altruism #effectivealtruist
* #Graphics #opengl #vulkan #gamedev
* #machinelearning #pytorch #tensorflow
* #programming in #c #cpp #rust #python #haskell specially those who post about their #foss projects
* #crypto such as #ada #sol #algorand
* #mathematics
* #AGI
* #academia

Anna Štádlerováanna@skorpil.cz
2021-11-22

I am:
🔵a #book lover
🔵mildly #burnedout but trying to take it easy 😊
🔵a #cat lover (sharing my place with 1 fluffy terrorist)
🔵#choleric (actively working on my tantrums though) 😂
🔵a good #communicator
🔵#compassionate
🔵#curious
🔵#Czech
🔵an #effectivealtruist (I translated Toby Ord's The Precipice into Czech)
🔵#empathic
🔵a #feminist
🔵#friendly
🔵a #linguistics nerd
🔵a #liberal
🔵a language #teacher
🔵a literary #translator
🔵very much in love with @stepan
🔵 a #woman

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