...which predates EA? EAs don’t generally take credit/responsibility for intellectual influences pre-2011, even if those intellectuals then become active in the EA community. If we’re not taking credit for Peter Singer’s work pre-2011, I don’t think we should take responsibility for Eliezer or Kurzweil’s work pre-2011.
Sure, you can slice things here however you want. I do think it’s important to be at least consistent with both positives and negatives here. I’ve definitely seen people claim credit for GiveWell as part of EA, which of course was also founded pre-2011. I don’t think think there is a clear answer on how to handle this, and it seems most important to just be consistent.
IMO it does also feel really weird to say the sentence “we’ve had a substantial influence on 2 out of the 3 top AI capability companies”, when like, the same people also had a substantial influence on the third.
...which predates EA? EAs don’t generally take credit/responsibility for intellectual influences pre-2011, even if those intellectuals then become active in the EA community. If we’re not taking credit for Peter Singer’s work pre-2011, I don’t think we should take responsibility for Eliezer or Kurzweil’s work pre-2011.
Sure, you can slice things here however you want. I do think it’s important to be at least consistent with both positives and negatives here. I’ve definitely seen people claim credit for GiveWell as part of EA, which of course was also founded pre-2011. I don’t think think there is a clear answer on how to handle this, and it seems most important to just be consistent.
IMO it does also feel really weird to say the sentence “we’ve had a substantial influence on 2 out of the 3 top AI capability companies”, when like, the same people also had a substantial influence on the third.