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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
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I’m really unclear what the point of this is; to be entirely honest, I don’t think it accomplishes anything besides potentially making you feel better. If it does, that’s fine, but I’m not sure this is the place for such simplistic and emotion-laden declarations.
The reality is that war and conflict is a complicated and unfortunate fact of reality, and it’s not very productive to just spout off random hatred against war. Furthermore, sometimes “peace” might be worse than war. In the Civil War, should the North have simply let the South secede and continue the barbaric practice of slavery? Should the UK have just thrown down their arms when Hitler invaded, or when he was gassing Jewish people?
If you’ve been personally affected by war I can understand that you might have a lot of emotions, but to be brutally honest, the degree of thoughtfulness in this declaration is on par with young children; many people I know have come to understand that the world is not so black and white by middle or at least high school.