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Towards Ineffective Altruism

by CartyBoston on 5/23/22, 10:40 AM with 1 comments

• by mjirv on 5/23/22, 11:17 AM

  Research around existential risk from asteroids, climate change, super volcanoes, and other natural phenomena seems extremely under-funded compared to “AI Risk.” Would “Computer Risk” researchers in the 1940s and 1950s have been able to achieve anything meaningful? Obviously not, and I think we’re in a similar position with respect to AI.

  I consider myself an EA and donate to the normal GiveWell causes (mosquito nets right now, I think), as I’d suggest other small donors do. Your marginal dollar won’t make a difference to extinction risk research, and certainly not if you give it to AI research.