All of Lovkush 🔸's Comments + Replies
I published my answer here: https://lovkush.substack.com/p/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-safety. I share same problems as peterhartree.
Was going to post this too! Good for community to know about these critiques and alternatives to EA. However, as JWS has already pointed out, critiques are weak or based on strawman version of EA.
But overall, I like the sound of the 'Moral Amibition' project given its principles align so well with EA. Though, there is risk of confusing outsiders given how similar the goals are, and also risk of people falsely being put off EA if they get such a biased perspective.
Of course you can make arguments to maintain some form of a social life and some other things being neccessary to maintain productivity over the long haul, but I think if you argue that that leads to anything close to a normal life you are being disingenuous.
I likely disagree, but depends on definitions. Could you describe what a life fully committed to helping others looks like for you?
but it does not seem to me most people here are actually completely commiting their life to helping others. I'd love to hear your reasoning for that
No solid reasoning, but ...
If there are willing volunteers, I would like to see an adversarial collaboration. Reading through the comments, it is tricky to dis-entangle what people mean, what are the fundamental disagreements, what are the facts of the matter, whether somebody (accidentally) mis-represented somebody else or even themselves, etc.
Some disagreements I see are:
- To what extent are the particular individuals 'bad people / racist / eugenicists'
- How much should the EA community influence the norms of and/or associate with the rationality/forecasting community
- Where the l...
Separate to this post, I emailed the EAG team and they replied with this option: "You could choose a free ticket and donate here through Giving What We Can, which is eligible for gift aid."
Unfortunately I already registered, but will do this in future.
For those interested, the question of whether EAG can qualify for 'Gift Aid' is answered on UK Government website:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/gift-aid-what-donations-charities-and-cascs-can-claim-on
"If any donor or person connected to the donor benefits significantly from their donation, it does not qualify for Gift Aid."
EDIT: I am (likely) wrong. EAG can qualify for 'Gift Aid'. See domdomegg's reply for why my comment is incorrect.
What is the current funding status of AISC?
Which funding bodies have you asked for funding from and do you know why they are not funding this (assuming they chose not to fund this)? The funding options I know about are OpenPhil, EA Funds and Non Linear.
My understanding is you only just managed to get enough funding to run a budget version of AISC 10, so I presume that means you'll be looking for funding for AISC 11.
I have done around 20 practice interviews for mathematical subjects for Oxbridge. If in the off chance you need somebody to help do this, feel free to reach out. (If yes, let me know and I will share my contact details with you via linkedin)
Regardless, good luck with this! Very useful for teenagers to get this advice which is otherwise not available.
What do you think of idea of using pandemic as a jumping off point? --idea that you really are capable of significant self-sacrifice for the greater good, and the kind of life changes that many EAs do are small compared sacrifice you have already made during pandemic.
--idea of thinking through with other person why it is obviously good for a government to buy vaccines for its population, given all the other things they could do with the money. I assume most people will use reasoning of helping the most people for low cost.
Agreed. Apparently the phrase 'spicy take' is meant to be for controversial opinions.