I was passing through the Bahamas and asked if FTX wanted me to talk to the EAs they had on fellowships there. They paid for my hotel room and an Airbnb when the hotel got full, for a week. I’m not sure but I don’t think I remember getting to see SBF at all while I was at the hotel. Didn’t go swimming or sunning or any such because I am not a very outdoors person. It does not seem entirely accurate to characterize this as “was hosted by SBF in the Bahamas”.
The Future Fund basically turned down all my ideas until the regrantor program started; I made two recommendations and I expect neither of them will pay out now unless they moved very fast.
Unless I specifically defend an idea, I think that a lot of what gets said in the San Francisco Bay Area is also not something I’d accept as my fault. Eg there was a lot of drug use involved in this going wrong, which I’m sure did not start from me, and I’ve suggested increasingly loudly and openly of late that people cut back on the drug use; maybe it’s Bay-associated idk, but it sure is not Yudkowsky-endorsed.
I did think Will MacAskill was from the Singer side of things, so I admit to being surprised if the highly-legible side of effective altruism got nothing, unless it was a room-for-more-funding issue with Givewell+OpenPhil having already snapped up all the fruit hanging lower than GiveDirectly. I will consider myself tentatively corrected on that point unless I hear otherwise or have investigated.
the Singer side explicitly starts by trying to twist people’s brains up internally, and at some point we should all maybe have a conversation about that.
It would be wild to see anyone defend or explain the terms “Singer side” or “twisting people’s brains” in this context, much less the intentional act implied.
This is a flat out attack that uses ideas and sentiment from actual criticisms of MIRI/LW, which I do not cite, because it is inflammatory. This is likely to preempt anticipated future criticism using these arguments.
I was passing through the Bahamas and asked if FTX wanted me to talk to the EAs they had on fellowships there. They paid for my hotel room and an Airbnb when the hotel got full, for a week. I’m not sure but I don’t think I remember getting to see SBF at all while I was at the hotel. Didn’t go swimming or sunning or any such because I am not a very outdoors person. It does not seem entirely accurate to characterize this as “was hosted by SBF in the Bahamas”.
The Future Fund basically turned down all my ideas until the regrantor program started; I made two recommendations and I expect neither of them will pay out now unless they moved very fast.
Unless I specifically defend an idea, I think that a lot of what gets said in the San Francisco Bay Area is also not something I’d accept as my fault. Eg there was a lot of drug use involved in this going wrong, which I’m sure did not start from me, and I’ve suggested increasingly loudly and openly of late that people cut back on the drug use; maybe it’s Bay-associated idk, but it sure is not Yudkowsky-endorsed.
I did think Will MacAskill was from the Singer side of things, so I admit to being surprised if the highly-legible side of effective altruism got nothing, unless it was a room-for-more-funding issue with Givewell+OpenPhil having already snapped up all the fruit hanging lower than GiveDirectly. I will consider myself tentatively corrected on that point unless I hear otherwise or have investigated.
Yudkowsky wrote this above.
It would be wild to see anyone defend or explain the terms “Singer side” or “twisting people’s brains” in this context, much less the intentional act implied.
This is a flat out attack that uses ideas and sentiment from actual criticisms of MIRI/LW, which I do not cite, because it is inflammatory. This is likely to preempt anticipated future criticism using these arguments.