Currently, total AI cognitive effort is growing ~25x yearly—hundreds of times faster than human research effort (4% yearly). 

Once AI can meaningfully substitute for human research, total research growth (human+AI) will increase *dramatically*. https://t.co/3MKNT27yiY

I was a fan of Effective Altruism (almost taught a course on it at Harvard) together w other rational efforts (evidence-based medicine, data-driven policing, randomista econ). But it became cultish. Happy to donate to save the most lives in Africa, but not to pay techies to fret

Moral philosopher at Oxford. Author of Doing Good Better and What We Owe The Future.

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