#effectivealtruists — Public Fediverse posts

Vegan Sith! Effective Altruists! San Francisco Murder Cults!

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

#EffectiveAltruists #Vermont #VeganSith

Vegan Sith! Effective Altruists! San Francisco Murder Cults!

https://openvallejo.org/2025/01/27/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology/

#EffectiveAltruists #Vermont #VeganSith

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/technology/openai-board-capitalists.html

(imho, we passed #singularity already, and are as yet unaware)

ex-#openAI board:"…with a mix of fear and awe, and worried about theoretical future events like the #singularity, a point at which #AI would outstrip our ability to contain it. Many were affiliated with philosophical groups like the #EffectiveAltruists,…and were persuaded to work in AI out of a desire to minimize the technology’s destructive effects."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/technology/openai-board-capitalists.html

(imho, we passed #singularity already, and are as yet unaware)

ex-#openAI board:"…with a mix of fear and awe, and worried about theoretical future events like the #singularity, a point at which #AI would outstrip our ability to contain it. Many were affiliated with philosophical groups like the #EffectiveAltruists,…and were persuaded to work in AI out of a desire to minimize the technology’s destructive effects."

My personal opinions are:
- #SimulationArgument is a philosophical sleight-of-hand, smoke and mirrors. The field of philosophy is full of these on-surface convincing arguments leading to absurd conclusions. They are generally based on a subtle deceit amplified thousand-fold by logic.
- Paperclip maximization argument is criticism of #capitalism, not #AI.
- #Panpsychism is true, and simple cognition isn't rare or difficult in the universe.
- #QuantumComputation isn't necessary for cognition or #AGI.
- #EffectiveAltruists are trying to solve a non-linear moral control problem by looking at a wrong thing: Far future instead of the present. You can't assume #future trajectories conditioned on people behaving sensibly if you are yourself advocating for behaving irrationally. Your alternative model of #ethics screws up the premise for the future taken as granted. Analogous to: https://xkcd.com/989/

My personal opinions are:
- #SimulationArgument is a philosophical sleight-of-hand, smoke and mirrors. The field of philosophy is full of these on-surface convincing arguments leading to absurd conclusions. They are generally based on a subtle deceit amplified thousand-fold by logic.
- Paperclip maximization argument is criticism of #capitalism, not #AI.
- #Panpsychism is true, and simple cognition isn't rare or difficult in the universe.
- #QuantumComputation isn't necessary for cognition or #AGI.
- #EffectiveAltruists are trying to solve a non-linear moral control problem by looking at a wrong thing: Far future instead of the present. You can't assume #future trajectories conditioned on people behaving sensibly if you are yourself advocating for behaving irrationally. Your alternative model of #ethics screws up the premise for the future taken as granted. Analogous to: https://xkcd.com/989/

"This “debate” about genetics & IQ...has been repeatedly pointed out as blatantly racist. Various philosophers have resurrected it...& have been shocked when people called them racist."

For some reason many of the resurrectors are #EffectiveAltruists. 🤔

vice.com/en/article/z34…

"This “debate” about genetics & IQ...has been repeatedly pointed out as blatantly racist. Various philosophers have resurrected it...& have been shocked when people called them racist."

For some reason many of the resurrectors are #EffectiveAltruists. 🤔

vice.com/en/article/z34…