The retaliation against Anthropic by labeling them a supply chain risk is indeed illegal. Congress authorized DoD to label companies as supply chain risks under very specific circumstances - the goal is to prevent foreign adversaries from infiltrating their components into our weapons systems. Hegseth flagrantly abused this power in a contract dispute with an American company. Anthropic has sued, and they will win in court.

In the meantime, the question is whether American companies who do business with both DoD and Anthropic will comply with the illegal decree. Will those companies cut off their business with Anthropic?

Having Congress stand up for the law will strengthen the spines of those companies. That is why I believe contacting your representatives is helpful on the margin.

I appreciate the different perspectives @Aithir , and it takes guts to go against the crowd (I upvoted). What do you think EAs should do differently? Both inside and outside of Anthropic

I counted 13 lies. Not bad for 140 characters!

Welcome to the forum! For videos specifically, John & Hank Green have an enormous number of subscribers, and they're pretty EA as far as I'm concerned. Just last week their vlogbrothers videos discussed treating tuberculosis in the Philippines.

One thing I'd love to have is an EA Workout Playlist on Spotify. Music is cool. Fitness is cool. I'd love to have that in my daily routine.

Iron supplementation is often important for vegans & vegetarians, especially if you also donate blood. Your doctor should measure your blood ferritin, not just hemoglobin. Both are important.

Iron gluconate pills work fine for my wife, but they make me nauseous. Iron glycinate pills work better for me.

Welcome to the forum, @SpeakClearly. You make some good points here, but could you please engage in a friendlier way?

I've heard people say that the idea of an individual's "carbon footprint" has actually harmed the cause of climate activists because it takes the emphasis onto personal behavior and off of policy change. Considering how amazingly successful policy advocacy for animal welfare can be, I worry that "welfare footprint" could be a step in the wrong direction.

Holy smokes this is a good answer! Do you know if anyone is trying to spread thinking about AI x-risk in China, at least among the engineers and intellectuals? I'm unsure about the tractability, but this seems super important & neglected since China still has a decent shot of developing AGI first.

Several of the Statement on AI Risk signatories live in China, including a Dean at Tsinghua University. What can be done to further integrate them into the global AI x-risk community?

This is fantastic, phoebe. Keep it up!

Thanks for this feedback, Joseph. The bullet points I wrote were for sure overly simplified. I was trying to put myself into the shoes of an open-minded Chinese citizen, who has no doubt absorbed more pro-China propaganda than either of us has.

"How would you try to convince an open-minded Chinese citizen that it really would be better for America to develop AGI first?"

If it is possible to convince Chinese AI engineers that "losing the race" is in their best interest, then that would be a huge win for everyone. It would give the West more breathing room to develop AGI safely.