On twitter people sometimes say "but what has EA done". This annoys me, so I am trying to get a list of actual soundbites, which I will tweet after editing.
Please comment with other lists, but:
- On twitter, in cases like this, defensibility is king. We want clear sources. Who did what, where was the money from, how many X were saved
- Be concise. A paid $X0000 for Y. This achieved Z
- Let's be honest about our failures too
What is the substantial role EA played in the founding of Deepmind? I find this claim surprising since Deepmind was founded in 2010. Or is Deepmind not a top three capability company according to you?
Sure, you can slice things here however you want. I do think it's important to be at least consistent with both positives and negatives here. I've definitely seen people claim credit for GiveWell as part of EA, which of course was also founded pre-2011. I don't think think there is a clear answer on how to handle this, and it seems most important to just be consistent.
IMO it does also feel really weird to say the sentence "we've had a substantial influence on 2 out of the 3 top AI capability companies", when like, the same people also had a substantial influence on the third.
Yeah I think this is a legitimate type of entry to include on the list, though I'd like one for each and an actual description.
I also think to strengthen it 'entirely founding Anthropic' and as well as founding the other companies, continually work to legitimise them and their influence; only very recently did substantial amounts of EA start working against these companies
Has anyone written a more detailed account of this?