Well Leif Wenar seems to have written a hatchet job that’s deliberately misleading about EA values, priorities, and culture.
The usual anti-EA ideologues are celebrating about Wired magazine taking such a negative view of EA.
For example, leader of the ‘effective accelerationist’ movement ‘Beff Jezos’ (aka Guillaume Verdon)wrote this post on X, linking to the Wenar piece, saying simply ‘It’s over. We won’. Which is presumably a reference to EA people working on AI safety being a bunch of Luddite ‘decels’ who want to stop the glorious progress towards ASI replacing all of humanity, and this Wenar piece permanently discrediting all attempts to slowing AI or advocating for AI safety.
So, apart from nitpicking everything that Wenar gets wrong, we should pay attention to the broader cultural context, in which he’s seen as a pro-AI e/acc hero for dissing all attempts at promoting AI safety and responsible longtermism.
Well Leif Wenar seems to have written a hatchet job that’s deliberately misleading about EA values, priorities, and culture.
The usual anti-EA ideologues are celebrating about Wired magazine taking such a negative view of EA.
For example, leader of the ‘effective accelerationist’ movement ‘Beff Jezos’ (aka Guillaume Verdon) wrote this post on X, linking to the Wenar piece, saying simply ‘It’s over. We won’. Which is presumably a reference to EA people working on AI safety being a bunch of Luddite ‘decels’ who want to stop the glorious progress towards ASI replacing all of humanity, and this Wenar piece permanently discrediting all attempts to slowing AI or advocating for AI safety.
So, apart from nitpicking everything that Wenar gets wrong, we should pay attention to the broader cultural context, in which he’s seen as a pro-AI e/acc hero for dissing all attempts at promoting AI safety and responsible longtermism.