A lot of EAs wanted to slow down AGI development to have more time for alignment. Now Trump's tariffs have done that - accidentally and for the wrong reasons - but they did slow it down. Yet no EA seems happy about this. Given how unpopular his tariffs are maybe people don't want to endorse them for PR reasons? But if you think that AI is by far the most important issue that should easily lead you to say the unpopular truth. Scenarios where China reaches AGI before the US became more likely, but that was always an argument against AI slowdown and it didn't seem to convince many people in the past.

Thoughts?

Maybe this post should be placed in some AI safety thread, but I wasn't sure where exactly.

Hanania released a new blogpost about his diet. It seems like part of the reason for not going vegan is his lack of self control. You can eat less calories and more protein on a vegan diet than he does on a nonvegan one.

I'm snacking on chocolate covered almonds all day.

Is there any charity that works on shrimp welfare that you would consider worth giving to based on this analysis? My preferred charity currently is The Humane League.

I thought it might be helpful to share this article. The title speaks for itself.

How to Legalize Prediction Markets

What you (yes, you) can do to move humanity forward

So far his e-mail has gotten relatively little media attention, his English Wikipedia page was changed (not the German one though) and there was little social media outrage.

This seems like a pretty good outcome for him. The reasons I can think of why that happened.

1.  His strategy of preemptively publishing the e-mails worked.
2.  He has no social media presence which would be the natural place for people to pile up on him.
3.  He might simply have gotten lucky.

My initial comment seemed completely innocent to me. I didn't expect the backlash and don't want to clog this thread further with a discussion that isn't really on topic, so this will be my last reply here. (DM me if you want)

thx @RAB for the reply

To all the people who downvoted. My comment was asking for clarification. If you then downvote it for presumably the same reason you took offense to the Bostrom comment without explaining why this isn't very productive.

@moderators I edited my comment. 

The effect that the rules will have won't be that I(and I assume this is true for others as well) will act the way that you think is proper, instead I will just not engage at all. This isn't just true for this instance (which would be trivial), but in general.

Did I link to an incorrect e-mail or why does this comment have -6 agreement karma? In general it would be helpful if people explained their downvote.

The reason why I don't say "the n-word" as you did is because it can be misleading. I have seen people using it to quote somebody else who just said "negro". So to me saying "the n-word" would violate another (to my mind much more important) norm: 

"Be honest. 

• Don’t mislead or manipulate."

I try to follow rules I disagree with. However if I violated any rules here then at least they should have been clearer, so I appreciate the ongoing effort.

As far as I can tell this is his "apology" from back then.