Henry Stanley 🔸
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I tend to agree; better to be explicit especially as the information is public knowledge anyway.
It refers to this: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HqKnreqC3EFF9YcEs/
most people's coworkers aren't trying to reshape the lightcone without public consent so idk, maybe different standards should apply here
Exactly. Daniela and the senior leadership at one of the frontier AI labs are not the same as someone's random office colleague. There's a clear public interest angle here in terms of understanding the political and social affiliations of powerful and influential people - which is simply absent in the case you describe.
Oddly I used to work at Pivotal[1] - have very fond memories of the London office with its full breakfast every morning...
Has since been acquired by VMware and gradually killed, and then VMware was acquired again by Broadcom who have really really killed it
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There's almost no mention of it online now as the brand has been killed off
This is wonderful – thank you so much for writing it.
Agree about secular, single-purpose communities – but I'm not sure EA is quite the same.
I've found my relationships with other EAs tend to blossom to be about more than just EA; those principles provide a good set of shared values from which to build other things, like a sense of community, shared houses, group meals, playing music together and just supporting each other generally. Then again, I don't consider EA to be the core of my identity, so YMMV.