Ed Zitron
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10 series
first heard Dec 2024
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And and it's it's not from any particular thing he's looking at, but the thing is Bostrom, who at that time is a philosophy professor at Oxford, uh came out of the same, you know, place basically as Yudkowski.
He was on those same 1990s listserves, and he's the one who sort of is most responsible for the connection between rationalism and effective altruism.
because it was when his colleagues at Oxford were sort of working on effective altruism that he went over to them and said, Oh, if you're worried about that, you really need to be worried about the AI These are two different worlds.
But these are
Yeah, but at this point they're kind of conjoined.
Yeah.
They're at at this point they're they're like they're really like i you can't disentangle the two communities.
But they s and they seem to ha have had different goals that have now kind of conjoined.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think that's correct.
Yeah.
I I should also point out, you know, the most famous example of someone who who took McCaskill's advice and, you know, went off to make a bunch of money in the finance industry and then tried to donate large amounts of it, uh, is Sam Bankmanfried.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
And actually uh d early investor in Anthropic.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
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