I contest the existence of fuzzy-free util. That’s an abstraction to help make a decision and it raises these problems:
Should EA be disciplined when celebrating EA wins, like cage-free eggs, so as not to get any fuzzies? That’s supposed to be util work.
Is there any theory for why anyone would ever do util with no fuzzy? We’re all biological creatures, concerned with food, sex, respiration—fuzzies, not utils. What is the initial drive to get a util?
Billionaire donors do demand accountability and transparency. Should we not be suspicious there may be some fuzzies involved there?
There’s a utility monster thought experiment—if “burn money discreetly” saved 10^100 lives, can you really see EA retooling itself around that? I think it would struggle with recruitment, struggle to pull people out of AI and bio risk. Remember—no fuzzy, for feeding the util monster, only util. Yes this is a Pascal’s mugging but it’s a valid one—the theory should withstanding it if fuzzy and util are simply separate. My feeling is it’s unlikely we would cope near our current form. which implies our current form is not doing a fuzzy/util separation.
I contest the existence of fuzzy-free util. That’s an abstraction to help make a decision and it raises these problems:
Should EA be disciplined when celebrating EA wins, like cage-free eggs, so as not to get any fuzzies? That’s supposed to be util work.
Is there any theory for why anyone would ever do util with no fuzzy? We’re all biological creatures, concerned with food, sex, respiration—fuzzies, not utils. What is the initial drive to get a util?
Billionaire donors do demand accountability and transparency. Should we not be suspicious there may be some fuzzies involved there?
There’s a utility monster thought experiment—if “burn money discreetly” saved 10^100 lives, can you really see EA retooling itself around that? I think it would struggle with recruitment, struggle to pull people out of AI and bio risk. Remember—no fuzzy, for feeding the util monster, only util. Yes this is a Pascal’s mugging but it’s a valid one—the theory should withstanding it if fuzzy and util are simply separate. My feeling is it’s unlikely we would cope near our current form. which implies our current form is not doing a fuzzy/util separation.