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Fill out this census of everyone who could ever see themselves doing longtermist work — it’ll only take a few mins
Ezra Newman15d2

Do you mean for the title to say "<= 3 mins"? I think you have your ">" inverted. (It took me about 3 minutes for the first section, and about 10 minutes all-in)

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4Niel_Bowerman15d
I was meaning to say "3 or more minutes".
Transcripts of interviews with AI researchers
Ezra Newman2mo3

With all the “AI psychology” posts on here and Twitter, I thought this was going to be “interviews with AIs that are researchers” not “interviews with humans researching AI”. This is probably more valuable!

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Why do you care?
Ezra Newman2mo16

My justification is pretty simple:

  1. I like being happy and not having malaria and eating food.

  2. I appear to be fundamentally similar to other people.

  3. Therefore, other people probably want to be happy and not have malaria and have food to eat.

  4. I don’t appear to be special, so my interests shouldn’t be prioritized more than my fair share.

  5. Therefore I should help other people more than I help myself because there are more of them and they need more help.

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