S

SiebeRozendal

2483 karmaJoined Mar 2017

Bio

Was community director of EA Netherlands, had to quit due to long covid

I have a background in philosophy,risk analysis, and moral psychology. I also did some x-risk research.

Comments
359

I hope you are correct! As an outsider, I find it very hard to judge without standardized non-gameable benchmarks for agents.

I hope you are correct. I find it very hard to judge without standardized, non-gameable benchmarks for agents.

I hope you are correct. As an outsider, I find it very hard to judge without standardized, non-gameable benchmarks for agents.

I really like this post, but I think the concept of buckets is a mistake. It implies that a cause has a discrete impact and "scores zero" on the other 2 dimensions, while in reality some causes might do well on 2 dimensions (or at least non-zero).

I also think over time, the community has moved more towards doing vs. donating, which has brought in a lot of practical constraints. For individuals this could be:

  • "what am I good at?"
  • "what motivates me?"
  • "what will my family think of me?"

And also for the community:

  • "which causes can we convince outsiders to go into?"
  • "which spread in causes do we need to not look too weird and demonstrate that our principles work?"

It can be difficult to separate these from the more universal moral and epistemic considerations, once someone is in a committed career path.

If anyone has good suggestions of what I could email to relevant MEPs (just Zvi's post?) that would be net-positive (e.g. low risk of bad regulation), I'd be happy to hear them.

Thanks for re-sharing! Unfortunately, these make it quite unclear how much they've given to EA. (I assume it's a large chunk of 'GCR Capacity Building'

No they didn't, and it looks like we aren't going to see the investigation, unless somebody leaks it. But it looks to me that it had something to do with his pattern of manipulative behavior, and allegedly he lied to other board members that McCauley wanted Toner fired (this was stated in the NY Times article on Murati, I think), which sounds like the proximate cause to me.

But if such behavior came up during the investigation, I'm confused how the investigators could NOT conclude there was good reason for his firing (maybe they're not so independent?) or why the board didn't say something like "Mr. Altman was attempting to get a board member fired by providing false information" (too risky for libel?). Maybe he lied to Sutskever or Brockman, and they didn't want to corroborate it? Questions, questions..

Load more