Very cool and potentially impactful project! Your team and advisory board seems to be outstanding, and I think that working on building companies to further African industrial capacities is possibly the most important thing to do for the development of the region.
One thing I am wondering though is what differentiates your org that will make it successful at scoping out and building sustainable businesses? I am not doubting that you could succeed, it's more that I am interested. Is success based on the sheer neglectfulness and capital constraint in field now? I'm guessing multinationals and banks see it as too risky and unnecessary to invest in African industry, and therefore there is a real capital constraint. I can also imagine that there is not that much talent going towards working on this either, and "boring" industrial businesses seem to be out of fashion, even though they are highly needed for the development of the continent.
What is the implication of this for EA thinking? Does the fly that purely exists in the computer warrant moral consideration, and could we increase the overall welfare of the world by making millions of these simulations with ideal fruit-fly conditions?
They fully copied the brain of the fly, so from my understanding it should also feel pleasure and pain in theory, I think this poses a real conundrum for EA morality.
One question: why are most of the SOTA models Claude? Is it because Anthropic is the company that releases the most data about their models? I thought that by most measures, Gemini would be the SOTA model today.
One point of improvement I noticed was that when it asked for zip-code you could only add American ones, I would suggest adding an option to choose different countries! I think the platform could be especially popular with Europeans, so I would suggest focusing on adding those countries first.
Anyway, I like the platform and I feel like it has a lot of potential to do good. Good work!
Far-future effects are the most important determinant of what we ought to do
I think we need to take a mixed approach, as it is extremely hard to predict what will happen in the far future. Improving the world today will also generally make the future better.
Very cool and potentially impactful project! Your team and advisory board seems to be outstanding, and I think that working on building companies to further African industrial capacities is possibly the most important thing to do for the development of the region.
One thing I am wondering though is what differentiates your org that will make it successful at scoping out and building sustainable businesses? I am not doubting that you could succeed, it's more that I am interested. Is success based on the sheer neglectfulness and capital constraint in field now? I'm guessing multinationals and banks see it as too risky and unnecessary to invest in African industry, and therefore there is a real capital constraint. I can also imagine that there is not that much talent going towards working on this either, and "boring" industrial businesses seem to be out of fashion, even though they are highly needed for the development of the continent.
I think you forgot to add the application link, I would love the opportunity to be advised on how to expand my dog walking career to new lengths!
If AGI takes on the same values as humanity as a whole, factory-farming will continue, this means it would not go well for the animals.
Good job presenting this in such a clear and concise manner. Thank you for all the great work you are doing!
Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?
What is the implication of this for EA thinking? Does the fly that purely exists in the computer warrant moral consideration, and could we increase the overall welfare of the world by making millions of these simulations with ideal fruit-fly conditions?
They fully copied the brain of the fly, so from my understanding it should also feel pleasure and pain in theory, I think this poses a real conundrum for EA morality.
Thanks for this! I will definitely try to implement some of this helpful advice :)
Cool website!
One question: why are most of the SOTA models Claude? Is it because Anthropic is the company that releases the most data about their models? I thought that by most measures, Gemini would be the SOTA model today.
Very inspiring, well done!
Cool project!
One point of improvement I noticed was that when it asked for zip-code you could only add American ones, I would suggest adding an option to choose different countries! I think the platform could be especially popular with Europeans, so I would suggest focusing on adding those countries first.
Anyway, I like the platform and I feel like it has a lot of potential to do good. Good work!
I think we need to take a mixed approach, as it is extremely hard to predict what will happen in the far future. Improving the world today will also generally make the future better.