Timnit Gebru (she/her).I just gave a virtual talk and this student got up to ask the first question, said he's the president of the effective altruism org. in the university, started doing a plug for it and I said that I was invited to do this talk at this university, and I'm not going to give you the stage to do advertise for EA. You can do that in your own time. Then he was like can I ask a question about healthcare? "I was going to ask a question before I got cutoff." Do you consider vaccines eugenics?
Dr. Matty G (he/him)@timnitGebru wait is this a thing people believe? What does that even mean?
OpenDNA⚙️@drmattyg @timnitGebru The idea is that saving lives today comes at the cost of more lives in the indefinite future, and is therefore an immoral preference for humans who do live over those who might. They put future extinction on the table as the cost of saving lives today, so the math also goes one way.
It's exactly as vile as it sounds.
@opendna @timnitGebru I can’t find any support for that interpretation by casual googling. I did find a lot of essays about longtermism that seem to be written by people who like the _idea_ of humanity, but don’t seem to care much for any _actual humans_.