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Disclaimer: While I criticize several EA critics in this article, I am myself on the EA-skeptical side of things (especially on AI risk).
Introduction.
I am a proud critic of effective altruism, and in particular a critic of AI existential risk, but I have to admit that a lot of the critcism of EA is hostile, or lazy, and is extremely unlikely to convince a believer.
Take this recent Leif Weinar time article as an example. I liked a few of the object level critiques, but many of the points were twisted, and the overall point was hopelessly muddled (are they trying to say that voluntourism is the solution here?). As people have noted, the piece was needlessly hostile to EA (and incredibly hostile to Will Macaskill in particular). And he's far from the only prominent hater. Emille Torres views EA as a threat to humanity. Timnit Gebru sees [...]
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Outline:
(02:21) No door to door atheists
(04:51) What went wrong here?
(08:40) Motivation gaps in AI x-risk
(10:59) EA gap analysis
(15:12) Counter-motivations
(25:49) You can’t rely on ingroup criticism
(29:10) How to respond to motivation gaps
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First published:
April 22nd, 2024
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CfBNdStftKGc863o6/motivation-gaps-why-so-much-ea-criticism-is-hostile-and-lazy
Linkpost URL:
https://titotal.substack.com/p/motivation-gaps-why-so-much-ea-criticism
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
“Updates on the EA catastrophic risk landscape” by Benjamin_Todd
“GDP per capita in 2050” by Hauke Hillebrandt
“My Lament to EA” by kta
“Émile P. Torres’s history of dishonesty and harassment” by anonymous-for-obvious-reasons
“Joining the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace” by Holden Karnofsky
“Priors and Prejudice” by MathiasKB
“Announcing The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness” by Sofia_Fogel
“How good it is to donate and how hard it is to get a job” by Elijah Persson-Gordon
[Linkpost] “Conferences are great for scientific entrepreneurs” by JP Addison
“Personal reflections on FTX” by William_MacAskill
[Linkpost] “Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report” by Pablo
“AIM’s new guide to launching a high-impact non-profit policy organization” by CE, weeatquince
“Understanding FTX’s crimes” by FTXwatcher
“The Rationale-Shaped Hole At The Heart Of Forecasting” by dschwarz, FutureSearch, Lawrence Phillips, hnykda, Peter Mühlbacher
“UK moves toward mandatory animal welfare labelling” by AdamC
“Why hasn’t EA done an SBF investigation and postmortem?” by RobBensinger
“Quick Update on Leaving the Board of EV” by Rebecca Kagan
“Announcing Mandatory Draft Amnesty Day (April 2nd)” by tobytrem
“Announcement: We are rebranding to Shrimpactful Animal Advocacy” by Impactful Animal Advocacy, Aaron Boddy
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