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Bob Jacobs 🔸

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I co-started Effectief Geven (Belgian effective giving org), am a volunteer researcher at SatisfIA (AI-safety org) and a volunteer writer at GAIA (Animal welfare org).

If you’re interested in philosophy and mechanism design, consider checking out my blog.

I’m a student of moral science at the university of Ghent. I also started and ran EA Ghent from 2020 to 2024, at which point I quit in protest because of the Manifest scandal (and the reactionary trend it highlighted). I now no longer consider myself an EA (but I’m still part of GWWC and EAA, and if the rationalists split off, I’ll definitely join again).

Possible conflict of interests: I have never received money from EA, but could plausibly be biased in favor of the organizations I volunteer for.

Aspira­tion-based, non-max­i­miz­ing AI agent designs

Bob Jacobs 🔸7 May 2024 16:13 UTC
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1 comment38 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare is now en­shrined in the Bel­gian Constitution

Bob Jacobs 🔸3 May 2024 22:26 UTC
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9 comments10 min readEA link