Evan_Gaensbauer

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist and science communicator who provides analysis and commentary on a variety of science and technology topics. I mention that upfront for anyone who isn't already familiar, since I understand a link post to some video full of hot takes on AI from some random...

This is a post written by David Thorstad, a philosophy professor who maintains a blog for criticizing various tenets of effective altruism called Reflective Altruism, as part of a series of on human biodiversity (HBD), a modern iteration of so-called race science. HBD, of course, isn't typical fare for EA,...

"Brendan Bordelon is a reporter for POLITICO on lobbying and influence in Washington, DC, by the tech industry. In late 2023, Bordelon began writing a series of articles investigating the influence of networks of non-profit/non-governmental organizations affiliated with the field of AI safety (AIS), as well as the effective altruism...

In recent years, there has been more public attention paid to seemingly increasing rates of less common identity characteristics or alternative lifestyle choices. This has provoked widespread media speculation that the trends in question are social contagions being spread by the communities or subcultures where such trends are most apparent....

There was of course initially much speculation that effective altruism was solely responsible. That was a common accusation from some among the effective accelerationism community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism), a.k.a. "e/acc." Many of them may remain forever convinced of that, in spite of whatever accurate conclusion may eventually be substantiated. It's nonetheless important...

I've received a few notifications in the last couple weeks that this post I wrote in 2018 about the relationship between the rationality community in Berkeley and the broader rationality community elsewhere has received some upvotes. I don't know why more people have been reading that post more recently but...