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Jeanne Marie Jacqueline (JMJ/Evana)

Double Master Degree of International Relations @ LUISS Guido Carli and China Foreign Affairs University
4 karmaJoined Pursuing a graduate degree (e.g. Master's)Pékin, Chine

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IR researcher transitioning into AI safety and governance. Background in political violence and quantitative methods (UvA, LUISS, CFAU Beijing). BlueDot biosecurity and AGI strategy courses in progress. Ask me about China's actual AI governance discourse vs. how it gets described in Western policy papers.

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Effective altruism in the age of AGI
Jeanne Marie Jacqueline (JMJ/Evana)1
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Hello, I am relatively new to EA (came in through the academic sibling "Effective Thesis"), but this post is truely enlightening about the original values and goals of the community!

To be honest, it is the EA's PR actions that brought me to this side of the internet... I did find an alignment with my values, and opted to pursue incremental engagement. As I was focusing on political violence and, back then, considered it was the most impactful and urgent societal issue to address on my scale. 

I hope I will be able to do as much good as possible (as a researcher and recent graduate), and participate to the mission of EA while bringing fresh ideas to the discussion that are not systematically AGI oriented ~

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Why are longtermists so much less focused on human extinction these days?
Jeanne Marie Jacqueline (JMJ/Evana)1
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Hi Bella, yes it is a fascinating read, and thank you for your moderate comment. Although, my first thought was slightly different, I went slightly further than "one could become the consequence of the other"...

Wouldn't extinction, in itself, be an event where suffering would be short then end? Rather than, for instance, enduring extreme concentration of power (building loyalty, distrusting people around oneself, etc.) or living under a superior intelligence (emulating the harmful dynamics humans had with animals).

I could see it as a hierarchy of anxieties 

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The Psychology of Authority
Jeanne Marie Jacqueline (JMJ/Evana)3
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Hello, thank you for this insightful perspective. I am curious about the alternative you would consider to governance in the absence of institutions centralising authority. There exist many frameworks that seldom have been experimented with, except in small scale, among others:
> Direct democratic representation could exist in small city-states, as long as citizens spend a consequential share of their time fulfilling civic duties, thus sacrificing other activities for the sake of being involved in the governance process.
> A state of anarchy (with no socio-political hierarchy), where communities/families would be self-governing and autonomous, assuming they would be peaceful enough to maintain the balance.

Are there other options that could stand human psychological biases, and practically cope with modern-time capacities (such as with the internet, complex interdependent global markets, etc.)?

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