Hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere yet that Luigi Mangione (US person who killed a health insurance executive) was interested in EA. "He suggested I schedule group video calls as he really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism.”
Crossposted to Less Wrong
‘Like most of life’s dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’
J Dmitri Gallow
Epistemic status
I’m not an expert in this field, and herein I make some sweeping generalisations educated guesses about the overall...
This post is part of the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series on how to allocate funding across causes when it is uncertain what matters most.
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Thanks to Bruce Friedrich, Seth Ariel Green, Tobias Leenaert, Jan Willem Bolderdijk, Martine van Haperen, Herman Rohrbach, Chris Popa and Elizabeth Alvarez for comments. Claude helped structure the text. Ideas and mistakes are my own. I currently work with ProVeg International. The prize I propose would be defined and judged by an independent committee, and its money would fund scaling the winning solution(s), not ProVeg or the winner.
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Hadn't seen it mentioned anywhere yet that Luigi Mangione (US person who killed a health insurance executive) was interested in EA. "He suggested I schedule group video calls as he really wanted to meet my other founding members and start a community based on ideas like rationalism, Stoicism, and effective altruism.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna183996
Linking some prior discussion here -- the accused person's last name isn't spelled correctly in that quick take, so you may have missed it on search.
Ahhh got it, thanks! Funny how most of the comments there are trying to rationalize his affiliation with EA as "not EA" lol.