It might genuinely be the time to boycott Chat GPT and start campaigns targeting corporate partners. But this isn't yet obvious. Even if so, what would be the appropriate concrete and reasonable asks? I think there is a bit of epistemic crisis emerging at the moment. If there's a case to be made, it needs to be made sooner rather than latter. And then we need coordination.
How about grantmaking to support investigatory journalism on USAID recipients and USAID workers in the developing world? Anyone already doing this?
Don't have a lot of details to share right now but there are a bunch of folks coordinating on things to this effect - though if you have ideas or suggestions or people to put forward feel free to DM!
I don't have any particular ideas for projects to start in this area, but if there are any projects that are already going on, I might be interested in supporting them. You can contact me to DM if/when you have anything to share!
Hot take, but political violence is bad and will continue to be bad in the foreseeable near-term future. That's all I came here to say folks, have a great rest of your day.
It has been my impression that the general AI safety community had over time shifted somewhat against an US-China AI race dynamic being a concern. But with the recent success of DeepSeek, it seems to me that the race is back on.
Has anyone not updated accordingly? If so, why? One implication of this development would seem to be that a merely domestic AI Pause is no longer a good idea. Is there agreement on this?
Has anyone tried appending "Hire me, and I'll donate 10% of my paycheck to charity" or something similar to their resume or LinkedIn?
I suspect it would just hurt non-EA applications, due to do-gooder derogation and other reasons. But maybe that's just cynicism on my part?
We know that unhatched chick embryos can suffer late in development, but current evidence is mixed on mid-term development around day-13. The in-ovo sexing technology used by the NestFresh brand in the US works on day-13 (which is banned in Germany). Claude's overview is here.
Given that public policy and industry tech adoption is still in early stages outside Europe, it seems to me that it is great time to fund further research on chick embryo sentience. Before day-13 becomes standard.