FWIW the reasons you’re giving here are closely related to the reasons why I’m sceptical that modern AI-focused EA is in fact as good.
In hindsight I shouldn’t have used the phrase “what made EA good”, since by this point I’m skeptical about both the AI safety version and the “original spirit” of EA. I guess that makes me one of the people you’re describing who joined a long time ago (in my case, over a decade) and have now disengaged.
I do think that int/a is less likely than EA to be significantly harmful, and I’m excited about that. Whether or not it has a decent chance of actually doing something meaningful will depend a lot on the vision of the founders (and Euan in particular). Right now I’m not seeing what will prevent it from dissolving into the background of general hippie-adjacent things (kinda like a lot of the Game B and metacrisis stuff seems to have done). But we’ll see.
In hindsight I shouldn’t have used the phrase “what made EA good”, since by this point I’m skeptical about both the AI safety version and the “original spirit” of EA. I guess that makes me one of the people you’re describing who joined a long time ago (in my case, over a decade) and have now disengaged.
I do think that int/a is less likely than EA to be significantly harmful, and I’m excited about that. Whether or not it has a decent chance of actually doing something meaningful will depend a lot on the vision of the founders (and Euan in particular). Right now I’m not seeing what will prevent it from dissolving into the background of general hippie-adjacent things (kinda like a lot of the Game B and metacrisis stuff seems to have done). But we’ll see.