Activities that are more moral than EA for me: At the moment I think working directly on assembling and conveying knowledge in philosophy and psychology to the AI safety community has higher expected value. I’m taking the AI human compatible course at Berkeley, with Stuart Russell, I hang out at MIRI a lot, so in theory I’m in good position to do that research and some of the time I work on it. But I don’t work on it all the time, I would if I got funding for our proposal.
But actually I was referring to a counterfactual world where EA activities are less aligned with what I see as morally right than this world. There’s a dimension, call it “skepticism about utilitarianism” that reading Bernard Williams made me move along. If I moved more and more along that dimension, I’d still do EA activities, that’s all.
Your expectation is partially correct, I assign 3% to EA activities is morally required of everyone, I feel personally more required to do them than 25% (because this is the dream time, I was lucky, I’m at a high leverage position etc..), but although I think it is right for me to do them, I don’t do them because its right, and that’s my overall point.
Agreed with 2 first paragraphs.
Activities that are more moral than EA for me: At the moment I think working directly on assembling and conveying knowledge in philosophy and psychology to the AI safety community has higher expected value. I’m taking the AI human compatible course at Berkeley, with Stuart Russell, I hang out at MIRI a lot, so in theory I’m in good position to do that research and some of the time I work on it. But I don’t work on it all the time, I would if I got funding for our proposal.
But actually I was referring to a counterfactual world where EA activities are less aligned with what I see as morally right than this world. There’s a dimension, call it “skepticism about utilitarianism” that reading Bernard Williams made me move along. If I moved more and more along that dimension, I’d still do EA activities, that’s all.
Your expectation is partially correct, I assign 3% to EA activities is morally required of everyone, I feel personally more required to do them than 25% (because this is the dream time, I was lucky, I’m at a high leverage position etc..), but although I think it is right for me to do them, I don’t do them because its right, and that’s my overall point.