Probably showing that Benn Jordan hit an industry nerve with publishing that video, an #EffectiveAltruist went on the attack:

"THE ALTRUISTS HAVE ARRIVED" — Benn Jordan
📰 https://www.bennjordan.com/blog/the-altruists-have-arrived

#Datacenters #Infrasound #NoisePollution #BennJordan #EffectiveAltruism

the altruists have arrived — Benn Jordan

I really hate that I have to take time away from research and meetings to respond to this, but I think this response is earned by the folks featured in my video, the people in communities and legislators I’ve consulted with, and those who have taken the time and expense to continue the research. I

Benn Jordan
Sam Bankman-Fried will appeal his 25-year sentence – live

Sentence for former CEO of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange is lower than the 4-50 years prosecutors asked for

the Guardian
NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of ‘effective altruist’ AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is facing an internal crisis as staff members and scientists have threatened to resign over the anticipated appointment of Paul Christiano to a crucial, though non-political, position at the agency’s newly-formed US AI Safety Institute (AISI), according to at least two sources with direct knowledge of the situation, who asked to remain anonymous.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/nist-staffers-revolt-against-potential-appointment-of-effective-altruist-ai-researcher-to-us-ai-safety-institute/

Good for them! #longtermist / #EffectiveAltruist / #TESCREAL people are cultists and have no place in government. They're obsessed with fantasies like #xrisk that are disconnected from reality and distract from the actual harms #AI is already causing here on Earth. It's precisely the same phenomenon as holding endless discussions about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin while ignoring that people are suffering. It sounds like Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo might be a Kool-aid drinker herself or is sympathetic to the viewpoints of the Kool-aid drinkers.

From her Wikipedia entry:
Gina Marie Raimondo...an American businesswoman, lawyer, politician, and venture capitalist
Emphasis mine.

It's alarming that this is even happening, and you know the fix is in because they tried to rush the appointment without informing staffers ahead of time. I hope #NIST staffers prevail.

cc: @[email protected] @[email protected]
NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of ‘effective altruist’ AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute

NIST faces turmoil as staff consider quitting over Paul Christiano's expected appointment to a role at the US AI Safety Institute, sources say.

VentureBeat

#AIDoomer cultists are ludicrous, but I'm looking forward to a "Warriors" style showdown between the messianic #EffectiveAltruist and Xtian fundies in DC. They are both into different styles of mutually exclusionary kink. It could be delicious.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/30/ai-debate-culture-clash-dc-silicon-valley-00133323

When Silicon Valley’s AI warriors came to Washington

Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement’s billionaire adherents pour money into D.C., its obsession with the AI apocalypse is remaking the capital’s tech policy landscape.

POLITICO

"The #EffectiveAltruist movement has had a terrible year. Its most prominent member, #SamBankmanFried was just found guilty of all 7 charges against him. But the FTX fiaso wasn't the only scandal that rocked EA.."
#tecsreal

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-altruism-is-a-welter-of-fraud-lies-exploitation-and-eugenic-fantasies/

Effective Altruism Is a Welter of Lies, Hypocrisy, and Eugenic Fantasies

The multibillion-dollar Effective Altruism movement makes rich people feel good about being rich — to hell with the bad publicity.

Truthdig

I've said it before but I guess I need to keep saying it: Any discussion of #LongTermism needs to be very clear that the "future people" are entirely hypothetical, & the probability of their existence in most contemporary #Longtermist scenarios is astronomically improbable.

Similar caveats apply for all the #effectivealtruist arguments I've heard - & in general needs to be applied whenever you're looking at #utilitarianism, as well.
#EffectiveAltruism #EffectiveAccelerationism #EAcc

TIL that Sean McElwee, the now disgraced Democratic pollster and think tanker, is an EA (#EffectiveAltruist) https://wapo.st/40C1dzP
The Washington gambler

Sean McElwee, a young Democratic insider with friends in high places, bet on himself in the post-Trump era. But that wasn’t all he was betting on.

The Washington Post

I just wrote an article for #EffectiveAltruism forum about the work @trans_rescue is doing to help at-risk LGBTQ+ people of all sorts escape Uganda. I had the opportunity to talk with @AnneOgborn about what's needed to safely transport someone out of Uganda and help them get settled and on their feet in their new country, so if you're curious about Trans Rescue's work, it may be worth a read.

For any #EffectiveAltruist folks here on Mastodon, my takeaway was that, because Trans Rescue was in the right place at the right time with existing expertise and resources to help LGBTQ+ people in East Africa, they're able to do this important work very cost effectively.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zC5CNAv8dCMyhtxW2/trans-rescue-s-operations-in-uganda-high-impact-giving

Trans Rescue’s operations in Uganda: high impact giving opportunity - EA Forum

Synopsis: Trans Rescue uses their existing experience and infrastructure for moving African trans people to safety to help LGBTQ+ people of all sorts escape genocide in Uganda, costing an estimated €…

Mastodon has been feeling kinda dead lately. Each week for the last few months I use it less and less. Why? I don't know. Perhaps the difficulty of finding engaging sub communities?

Anybody know people here who post regularly and are into:

* Effective Altruism #effectivealtruist
* #Graphics #opengl #vulkan #gamedev
* #machinelearning #pytorch #tensorflow
* #programming in #c #cpp #rust #python #haskell specially those who post about their #foss projects
* #crypto such as #ada #sol #algorand
* #mathematics
* #AGI
* #academia

I am:
🔵a #book lover
🔵mildly #burnedout but trying to take it easy 😊
🔵a #cat lover (sharing my place with 1 fluffy terrorist)
🔵#choleric (actively working on my tantrums though) 😂
🔵a good #communicator
🔵#compassionate
🔵#curious
🔵#Czech
🔵an #effectivealtruist (I translated Toby Ord's The Precipice into Czech)
🔵#empathic
🔵a #feminist
🔵#friendly
🔵a #linguistics nerd
🔵a #liberal
🔵a language #teacher
🔵a literary #translator
🔵very much in love with @stepan
🔵 a #woman