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This post makes very weird claims regarding what SIAI's positions would be.
"Spend most on a particular future"? "Eliezer Yudkowsky is the right and only person who should be leading"?
It doesn't at all seem to me that stuff such as these would be SIAI's position. Why doesn't the poster provide references for these weird claims?
Here's a good reference for what SIAI's position actually is:
http://singinst.org/riskintro/index.html
Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Video Answers
Q: The only two legitimate occupations for an intelligent person in our current world? Answer
Q: What's your advice for Less Wrong readers who want to help save the human race? Answer
A) doesn't seem to be quoted verbatim from the supplied reference!
There is some somewhat similar material there - but E.Y. is reading out a question that has been submitted by a reader! Misquoting him while he is quoting someone else doesn't seem to be very fair!
[Edit: please note the parent has been dramatically edited since this response was made]
How do your quotes claim that Eliezer Yudkowsky is the only person who should be leading?
(I would say that factually, there are also other people in leadership positions within SIAI, and Eliezer is extremely glad that this is so, instead of thinking that it should be only him.)
How do they demonstrate that donating to SIAI is "spending on a particular future"?
(I see it as trying to prevent a particular risk.)
Seconded, plus I don't understand what the link from "worth it" has to do with the topic.
I'll let the master himself answer this one:
From the position paper I linked above, a key quote on what SIAI sees itself as doing:
"We aim to seed the above research programs. We are too small to carry out all the needed research ourselves, but we can get the ball rolling."
The poster makes claims that are completely at odds with even the most basic familiarity with what SIAI's position actually is.
By the way, is it linked to from the SIAI site somewhere? It's a good summary, but I only ever saw the direct link (and the page is not in SIAI site format).
It's linked from the sidepanel here at least:
http://singinst.org/overview
But indeed it's not very prominently featured on the site. It's a problem of most of the site having been written substantially earlier than this particular summary, and there not (yet) having been a comprehensive change from that earlier state of how the site is organized.
I see. This part of the site doesn't follow the standard convention of selecting the first sub-page in a category when you click on the category, instead it selects the second, which confused me before. I thought that I was reading "Introduction" when in fact I was reading the next item. Bad design decision.