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I can host the adjacent astroturfing meetup! I’ll reserve one seat at a restaurant.
Curated and popular this week
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.
Public Opinion...
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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AI in Context is excited to be back with our fourth video! For those just hearing from us, we make videos for 80,000 Hours, telling stories about transformative AI...
Recent opportunities to take action
I applied to attend the Burner Accounts Anonymous meetup and was rejected.
Initially, I received no feedback. Just a standard auto-generated rejection message.
After reaching out to BurnerMeetupBurner for feedback, I learned that I was rejected because of my IQ. The event is apparently only for high IQ individuals.
I feel very disappointed. Not only because I believe that intelligence is not relevant for making a fruitful contribution to event, but also because of the lack of transparency in the application process.
This makes me consider leaving the EA burner movement and post under my real name in the future.