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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
It is fascinating how lots of people seem to genuinely have the mental association "EAs = people who are anti-technology" Of course it makes sense if 2023 AI stuff is one's first introduction to internet nerd subcultures, but even two years ago that characterization would have seemed completely incomprehensible.
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Sriram Krishnan
@sriramk.eth
It might be a direct response to the EA community somehow converging on this as *the* issue to focus on. It wouldn't be as much as an issue if this was about battling malaria.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I think that alliance has genuinely been forged in 2023. It’s not a misunderstanding or illusion. And it has been at least a half-serious joke for years (the idea that EAs think “correct” Bayesian analysis must conclude stopping AGI is the most important problem to work on… heard it first around 2018 iirc)
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
Especially given how many people in EA have worked in tech. Made this Venn diagram some time ago to show the absurdity of such a claim
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@cerv1
I appreciate @nayafia ‘s take on EA as an “idea machine” … regardless of whether you agree with the EA value system, the world needs more idea machines like EA https://nadia.xyz/idea-machines
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
It's weird though because EA has talked about x risks for years, including bio and nuclear risks, but no one gets mad at EA for being anti-technology due to concerns over bio. I think it has a lot to do with the OSS culture meeting the x-risk culture and the two not knowing which principles apply.
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@joeblau
I don’t think EA is anti-tech. It’s just a wealth redistribution scheme where one group of people thinks they know how to best allocate resources by taking resources from other groups. You can do it with or without tech.
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@pierrepauze
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@m-j-r
not sure I agree, I'd characterize the trend as "EAs = pro-conventional tech for philanthropy, but anti-nonconventional to a politically material extreme" sort of blots out the goodwill & willingness to leave people alone to their own devices. if someone refuses the HEPA filter, do you force it on them altruistically?
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Gin
@ginn
GM sir
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olas
@olas
Builders! The olas network is waiting for you!
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David
@datle
AI is too difficult with me to learn, I don’t know how to start
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@vcaster
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jacksteroo.eth
@jacksteroo
i've yet to meet a true EAs nor e/acc. i respect the movement, even though SBF gave it a bad rep.
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Ethan Street
@ethanstreet
Hullo, what’s the difference between a nerd and a geek? And is a neek simply nerd + geek? If a nerd and a geek walk into a bar, what happens?
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@kimbocrush
People have watched the Terminator to many times since the 90's a little worried about Ai. That and who could forget Hal from 1968. Or War games .
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wizard not parzival
@alexpaden
ea/eacc overblown internal tech debate?
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@artur-wdowiarski
I think that short-term trends driven by VCs don’t say much about anything, tbh.
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Oms G
@omahanma.eth
Vatalik you’re a G
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