PeterSlattery

Research @ MIT FutureTech/Ready Research
3444 karmaJoined Working (6-15 years)Sydney NSW, Australia
www.pslattery.com/

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Researcher at MIT FutureTech helping with research, communication and operations and leading the AI Risk Repository. Doing what I consider to be 'fractional movement building'. 

Previously a behavior change researcher at BehaviourWorks Australia at Monash University and helping with development a course on EA at the University of Queensland.

Co-founder and team member at Ready Research.

Former movement builder for the i) UNSW, Sydney, Australia, ii) Sydney, Australia, and iii) Ireland, EA groups.

Marketing Lead for the 2019 EAGx Australia conference.

Founder and former lead for the EA Behavioral Science Newsletter.

See my LinkedIn profile for more of my work.

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A proposed approach for AI safety movement building

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Re: Googling, this post wasn't really motivated by finding out how to donate crypto/stocks to AMF. I mainly just wanted to signal to EA orgs that they should be able to receive such donations (or understand why some might not accept it).

The rough sequence of events was:

  • I started by trying to donate stock/crypto to Horizon and didn’t see an obvious pathway on their site.
  • I found their (inactive) profile on Every.org and noticed that a number of other EA-aligned orgs weren’t (active) there either.
  • I searched things like “how to donate cryptocurrency to Effective Altruism charities” and ran into posts/resources that seemed outdated.
  • Then I did a quick (and clearly insufficient) scan of GWWC and AMF and mistakenly concluded they didn’t support these options.
  • I then felt that there was some reasonable probability that there might be a blind spot/gap here and posted the question.

Given my experience, I wonder if it would be helpful for someone (CEA?) to maintain a simple resource listing which EA orgs accept stock and crypto? I'm not sure if there is enough confusion or demand to justify it, though. 

Thanks for correcting me, Lorenzo, I really appreciate it! I was clearly a little inattentive/hasty when doing my research and writing this post. I have added a note to the original and will downvote myself for spreading false info, and wasting people's time here.

Yeah, I can see how that’s a bit of a dilemma. To avoid the flags, maybe you could make it a separate download or something people have to specifically email you to request.

I can also imagine that for some people, especially those in certain jobs, the screenshots or logging features won’t be worth the risk. On that note, I decided to uninstall the tool myself, given the security considerations and the requirements from my employer.

Ok, I have now read some comments where you explain the privacy below, and watched your video. I'm going to engage with the university security team and ask them what they think, and whether they feel this is appropriate to have on a work computer. 

I looked into this and no longer have these concerns.

Thank you for this. I have some security concerns, and I am uninstalling the software after I received the message below from my university. Can you please respond here to explain?

"IS&T Information Security received a Crowdstrike alert about some software you downloaded from donethat.ai. Presumably it was intentional, but this software comes installed with what looks like keylogger functionality. ...Having a keylogger on your system is pretty risky. Even if they purport to not store data, there is always the risk that the software or your machine is compromised, and the data stream is intercepted for misuse"

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This installer wrote the following file, which is associated with keylogging functionality:

FILE: ...\node_modules\node-global-key-listener\bin\WinKeyServer.exe"
 

Do you think that it would be better to just add a helpful or heart emoji to the post instead? I used to leave the same sorts of comments as Ben. These got downvoted occasionally. I interpreted this pattern as being due to people not appreciating these sorts of 'thank you comments'. When emoji react were added, I therefore switched to emoji reacting, as I felt that this would achieve the same outcomes without creating the 'noise' of a 'thank you comment'. However, I could go back to leaving comments if that seems like a better approach.

Thanks for this. Is there a place where I can see the sources you are using here?

I am particularly interested in the source for this:
"The other graph here is an interesting one. It's the financial returns to IQ over two cohorts. The blue line is the older cohort, it's from 50 years ago or something. It's got some slope. And then the red line is a newer cohort. And that's a much steeper slope. What that means is basically for every extra IQ point you have, in the new cohort you get about twice as much money on average for that IQ point. "

Thanks for your work on this and in the past Luke and Greg! I've also signed the letter. I hope it has a positive impact going forward.

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