Both of these comments are somewhat true. My default position is definitely ‘they seem impactful to me’. It’s also a bit of ‘why aren’t companies like this talked about much within EA’. That said, the point of my post is to gain unbiased insight from the community, so it might be better posed as ‘is BenevolentAI (positively) impactful?’.
I suppose as I wrote the title, I was reading the acronym as ‘Effectively Altruistic’ and as an adjective, rather than questioning whether it ‘deserves a spot in the tribe’. Clearly ‘impactful’ would have been a better word than altruism given the nature of their profit making company.
I think their company name is eye catching enough to warrant its position as the first word on my first post’s title, so I think I’ll leave it there and chuck in ‘impactful’ for clarity.
Both of these comments are somewhat true. My default position is definitely ‘they seem impactful to me’. It’s also a bit of ‘why aren’t companies like this talked about much within EA’. That said, the point of my post is to gain unbiased insight from the community, so it might be better posed as ‘is BenevolentAI (positively) impactful?’.
I suppose as I wrote the title, I was reading the acronym as ‘Effectively Altruistic’ and as an adjective, rather than questioning whether it ‘deserves a spot in the tribe’. Clearly ‘impactful’ would have been a better word than altruism given the nature of their profit making company.
I think their company name is eye catching enough to warrant its position as the first word on my first post’s title, so I think I’ll leave it there and chuck in ‘impactful’ for clarity.
Thanks :)
(I like the current title!)