Effective Altruism

“I think that even if effective altruism under that name does not continue to exist, I think the philosophy will.”

“So you're probably going to hire a bunch of EA people and you're going to have to make them happy because they could leave at any time. Right there. There's huge competition for people who actually build these systems. So there's that, but then, you know, so t…”

“If you talk to people who know Ilya, he's like, I'm not EA, I'm AI safety.”

“I have not found much difference in what these two groups want, only the timeframe in which they want them to happen. It is, it, in my opinion, I have not seen enough difference between the two.”

“Effective altruism is a group of people who believe in sort of doing as much good as possible with this sort of like data driven analysis approach... And why they have largely adopted this idea that although they think we should be developing artificial intell…”

“They're not opposites in the sense that, like, EA are communists. Like, they're both pretty aligned on the idea of making as much money as humanly possible. They're both supported by a lot of anti-democratic thinkers. They're both sort of center to not maybe j…”

“There's a culture fit test. Like when you get hired where you're asked that, that as far as I understand, I don't have like the questions in front of me, but a lot of the questions are sound, they're basically trying to test whether or not you'd be EA enough. …”

“They both have this sort of mythology in their heads about this, you know, godlike AI being that is just around the corner.”

“EA people should be, like, super into vaccinations or, like, preparing for the covid-twenty-four or whatever, but they've determined that it is the ultimate risk to humanity because it's exciting and interesting, and it, like, makes for a good post. And that i…”

“For this story, we asked all the companies, by the way, if they agreed with characterization of them as EA or not, and all of the companies told us they are not EA aligned.”

“Effective accelerationism and to an extent effective altruism are really just sort of a rebranding of a lot of the same philosophies that have existed in Silicon Valley for a long time where people really want to feel good about themselves. Like they're, you k…”

“At the middle 2000, there was the rise of a very kind of niche, but influential message board and blog called less wrong and less wrong... Was the birthplace for several Sort of digital philosophies, online philosophies. So the big one is obviously effective a…”

“Of the group of people in the world that have spent a long time thinking about AI, are really good at math and science, and have worried about some of the safety issues, there is a huge overlap with this community of people called effective altruists, and so s…”

“The organization is much more, Like oriented around trying to build some useful AI staff, prove that it works in the world and be very sort of pragmatic. We're not driven by some kind of like EA ideology. And in the early days we hired quite a few people from …”

“I definitely think they've been, like, right on a lot of things, right in the sense of, like, this is a big focus, and they've realized it before a lot of other people. Like, this AI stuff, right? The EAs have been talking about this stuff for decades, and, li…”

“So, I mean, I've never described myself As an effective altruism, I think my, ah, some of my ideas have had an influence there, and in particular yeah, try to think more about the sort of the macro strategic aspects of our strivings, as opposed to just the loc…”

“Once you start to engage in activism, then There is kind of mimetic pressures to simplify our message and to close ranks and to try to beat the people with opposing views down in the marketplace of ideas. and I think we are seeing some of the beginnings of th…”

“I do think the movement and the reputation of the movement is like still in tatters.”