As far as I've known (which is to say, what is accessible through the public record) she has been engaging since the time of the trial and before and after prison in many iniciatives and work of the kind that is restorative and good for self and others, even if not very impactful: volunteering, soup kitchens, teaching adult-literacy classes, volunteering as a tax preparer for low-income people, helping to send books to prisoners... and she's had great difficulties in finding ordinary paid work (even been asked to leave in some of the work just mentioned when her employers discovered who she was).
As others have noted in this thread, remember The Altruists will come out in November, which will lead to more media attention to both Caroline personally and her connection to EA as a whole.
How impactful would it be to copies of @Garrison's new book Obsolete to elected officials who belong to its political target audience (Dems, particularly left ones) and might not have been responsive to traditional x-risk-centric comms (e.g. IABIED)?
My first Fable benchmark was to one-shot turning `emacs -batch -l dunnet` into a graphical adventure game and it hit the safety guardrails bc one of the puzzles involve nitroglycerine 😭
I, er, do not think we're bottlenecked in "attention brought to the most popular politician in the US [who happens to be an advocate for AI safety]" (as opposed to, say, "attention brought to AI safety [by the most popular politician in the US]").
I very much expect a speaker at an EA conference talking about the benefits of torture would be quickly shown the door. More to the point, this goes double for a speaker saying EAs should ditch the "doing good impartially based on reason and evidence" thing and instead pick a Great Leader to never criticize and embark on a crusade to genocide the inferior races.
What is your source for all this?
Claude says, with various caveats: Michael Milken, Steve Madden, Marc Rich, Dennis Kozlowski, Andrew Fastow.
Caroline presumably would just pay back?
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As others have noted in this thread, remember The Altruists will come out in November, which will lead to more media attention to both Caroline personally and her connection to EA as a whole.
Data point: I'm not posting here as much as before because the new UI is frankly just dogshit.
How impactful would it be to copies of @Garrison's new book Obsolete to elected officials who belong to its political target audience (Dems, particularly left ones) and might not have been responsive to traditional x-risk-centric comms (e.g. IABIED)?
My first Fable benchmark was to one-shot turning `emacs -batch -l dunnet` into a graphical adventure game and it hit the safety guardrails bc one of the puzzles involve nitroglycerine 😭
I, er, do not think we're bottlenecked in "attention brought to the most popular politician in the US [who happens to be an advocate for AI safety]" (as opposed to, say, "attention brought to AI safety [by the most popular politician in the US]").
I very much expect a speaker at an EA conference talking about the benefits of torture would be quickly shown the door. More to the point, this goes double for a speaker saying EAs should ditch the "doing good impartially based on reason and evidence" thing and instead pick a Great Leader to never criticize and embark on a crusade to genocide the inferior races.