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This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
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I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
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New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman
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Organoid intelligence seems much less dangerous than digital AGI. The major concerns with AI depend upon it quickly becoming superhuman: it might copy itself easily and hide what it is doing on different servers, it might expand its cognitive resources relatively effortlessly, it might think much faster than we can think. None of that seems likely to be possible for organoids.
I’m assuming here that researchers will integrate sub-AGI digital intelligence with brain organoids to speed up the path to developing AGI. I’ll make this clearer in the post.