This is a linkpost for https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2023/how-effective-altruism-led-to-a-crisis-at-openai
One of the most prominent backers of the “effective altruism” movement at the heart of the ongoing turmoil at OpenAI, Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, told Semafor he is now questioning the merits of running companies based on the philosophy.
A pretty poor piece of journalism in my opinion. It gets a number of facts wrong. For example:
The relevant paragraphs regarding Tallinn's views:
I'm not a fan of how Tallinn is citing manifold polls here: it's obviously gameable and non-representative, although I do agree with their conclusion in this case.