Great question Aaron! The LessWrong team wrote a good description of it that I’m going to steal:
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This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
Public Opinion...
I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman
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Great question Aaron! The LessWrong team wrote a good description of it that I’m going to steal:
(From: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mrGeJ4Wt66PxN9RQh/lw-update-2018-12-06-table-of-contents-and-q-and-a)
Thanks, JP! I've always had more questions than I knew what to do with, and now I know what to do with them.