To what extent do you think this fits the typical EA brief of 'important, neglected, tractable'? Even if we think that supporting sturgeon populations is intrinsically valuable - given that the fall in sturgeon populations is caused by overfishing for caviar, isn't is more obvious to just... not consume it?
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‘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...
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Subtitle: If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year
This post discusses a public METR report on AI R&D acceler...
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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To what extent do you think this fits the typical EA brief of 'important, neglected, tractable'? Even if we think that supporting sturgeon populations is intrinsically valuable - given that the fall in sturgeon populations is caused by overfishing for caviar, isn't is more obvious to just... not consume it?