Thanks for the post, Holly. Strongly upvoted. I did not find the post that valuable per se, but it generated some good discussion.
If you care about protecting the world, you will quit, even though it will be hard to give up the money and the prestige and the hope that they would fix the problem.
People at leading AI companies can earn hundreds of thousand of dollars per year, so quitting could plausibly decrease their donations by 100 k$/year. I estimate donating this to the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) would decrease as much pain per year as that needed to neutralise the happiness of 1.25 M human lives (= 100*10^3*639/51). Do you think the benefits of quitting outweight this? I do not, so I encourage people at leading AI companies to simply donate more to SWP. I imagine no one would quit if there were actual human lives on the line (instead of shrimp which are not helped).
I’m not sure I understand the question. If it’s about being able to give donations, I wouldn’t worry bc these people can be employed elsewhere making comparable salaries.
I think expected future earnings, including salaries and appreciation of equity, would go down in most cases. I thought you would agree because you said “even though it will be hard to give up the money”.
Thanks for the post, Holly. Strongly upvoted. I did not find the post that valuable per se, but it generated some good discussion.
People at leading AI companies can earn hundreds of thousand of dollars per year, so quitting could plausibly decrease their donations by 100 k$/year. I estimate donating this to the Shrimp Welfare Project (SWP) would decrease as much pain per year as that needed to neutralise the happiness of 1.25 M human lives (= 100*10^3*639/51). Do you think the benefits of quitting outweight this? I do not, so I encourage people at leading AI companies to simply donate more to SWP. I imagine no one would quit if there were actual human lives on the line (instead of shrimp which are not helped).
I’m not sure I understand the question. If it’s about being able to give donations, I wouldn’t worry bc these people can be employed elsewhere making comparable salaries.
I think expected future earnings, including salaries and appreciation of equity, would go down in most cases. I thought you would agree because you said “even though it will be hard to give up the money”.
I wasn’t imagining they were donating the money, frankly. I’m not sure how many people working at AI companies even donate.
Anyway, directly making the world worse is not the only choice for making money.