EA is compelling insofar as it is about genuinely making the world a better place, ie we care about the actual consequences. Just because there are probably no specific people/processes to blame, doesn’t mean we should be satisfied with how things are.
There is now decent evidence that EA might cause considerable harm in the world, so we should be strongly motivated to figure out how to change that. Maybe EA’s failures are just the cost of ambition and agency, and come along with the good it does, but I think that’s both untrue and worryingly defeatist.
I care about the end result of all of this, and the fact that we’re okay with some serious Ls happening (and not being willing to fix the root cause of those errors) is concerning.
EA is compelling insofar as it is about genuinely making the world a better place, ie we care about the actual consequences. Just because there are probably no specific people/processes to blame, doesn’t mean we should be satisfied with how things are.
There is now decent evidence that EA might cause considerable harm in the world, so we should be strongly motivated to figure out how to change that. Maybe EA’s failures are just the cost of ambition and agency, and come along with the good it does, but I think that’s both untrue and worryingly defeatist.
I care about the end result of all of this, and the fact that we’re okay with some serious Ls happening (and not being willing to fix the root cause of those errors) is concerning.