Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology. https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1725958636529480155
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Jackson 🎩🍖
@jacks0n
What do you think caused this perceived downfall?
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Definitely a big change in emphasis over the last 5y from "we are curious and explore lots of hypotheses around a few big ideas" to "we are very convinced of one thesis and will act decisively based on what that thesis implies is true"
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
I also suspect that the earlier culture of avoiding politics may have backfired as it means that as they are going very very deep into politics (understandably, given the emergency situation that the AI x-risk thesis implies) now they have much less experience than they otherwise could have had.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Yep, I was generally positive about EA in the first couple of years mid 2010s, when several reasonable friends got sucked into it. Then it slowly morphed into a weird eschatological many-worlds cult of baslisks and bayesian thinking ironically got unmoored from any grounding. You seem to have survived, but many didn't
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Joe Blau 🎩
@joeblau
What is the one EA thesis? The first time I ever heard about EA was with SBF so that’s my only context to what an EA is.
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