Ways I’ve changed my mind
- No longer sure AI is risky or bad
- From: Hacking on LLM stuff, talking to and using LLMs
- Disbelief of orthogonality thesis; supposition of AI as god
- Disagreements with EA as practiced by OpenPhil & CEA
- See Nuno’s comments on EA; Leila’s trajectory
- Manifest vs EAG as a study in taste vs goodhearting
- Systems vs individuals
- Unclear that donations to eg malaria nets, still matter to me
- … did I just get status-captured into contrarian donating? Like, malaria isn’t cool now, it’s AI, or if not animals, or maybe weird speculative stuff or progress
- Marginal person represented on the EA Forum doesn’t excite me
- Evaporative cooling of EA, towards AI risk stuff, or others
- I enjoy philosophy and academia but it’s not how I operate
- SV “doing stuff” is a better match for my interests
But: is SV technocapitalism better?
- That’s the default framing for Manifold, buni, or something I’d do next
- Post-SV folks like Evan Wallace or Nate Foss
- From def/acc: There’s a lot of cargoculting around raising, getting funding, talking to users
- I like the benefits of choice, but:
- Jenn on Rich Friend Poor Friend — capitalism reduces the need to rely on each other, which also seems pretty important?
Which status ladders are worth playing?
Ones nearby:
- Silicon Valley — Founders? VCs?
- EA — Holden? Dustin?
- AI — Top researchers?
- Catholic — Jesus? Pope?
- Politics — President? Founding Fathers?
- Bloggers — Scott Alexander? Tyler Cowen?
Drafting a better ideology, network state, religion
- More solid commitments than EA?
- And more structured governance, equity?
- Inclusive for AIs?
- Need to solve all the problems of @agent economics
- Is this for myself, or for others (to coordinate many folks?)
- Pluralistic?