I'm a cryonaut from a few years back. I had deep philosophical differences to most of the arguments for AI Gods, which you may be able to determine from some of my recent discussions. I still think that it not completely crazy to try and create an beneficial AI God (taking into consideration my fallible hardware and all), but I put a lot more weight on futures where the future of intelligence is very important, but not as potent as a god.
Thanks for your pointers towards the EA segment, I wasn't aware that there was a segment.
In that case, let me give a quick summary of what I know of that segment of effective altruism.
For context, there are basically 4 clusters. While many/most people concentrate on traditional human charities, some people think animal suffering matters more than 1/100th as much as a human suffering, and so think of animal charities are therefore more cost effective. Those are the first 2 clusters of ideas.
Then you have people who think that movement growth is more important, since organizations like Raising for Effective Giving have so far been able to move l...
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