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Three of the most exciting projects to come out of EA in recent years are, in a vague sense, CEA spinouts:
* Kairos is directly a spinout of CEA and now handles most support for university AI safety groups. Basically everyone I've found who knows them is really excited about what they do
* NEST is an opinionated ideas-fi...
TLDR; To help the effective animal advocacy movement cost-effectively absorb greater amounts of funding in the near future, we are seeking expressions of interest from people who could found a new organization focused on:
* Highly neglected animals: insects, wild animals, shrimp, fish, etc, or
* AI and animals: AI alignment and governance for animal welfare, strategic actions considering transformative AI, AI for wild animals, etc.
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Definitely; I tried to capture this feeling (of future generations looking back at the uncertainty and danger of our own time) in my short story The Toba Supervolcanic Eruption. For me, this is definitely one of the top motivations -- another one might be the analogy between the death of an individual and the end of civilization, and the death-like horror of a future where civilization had disappeared. But different people are different. For instance, some folks just really like the idea of doing the morally right thing, so that they can know they're a morally good person who's faithfully executed their cosmic duty.