Timnit Gebru (she/her).Jun 5, 2023

Who is Nick Beckstead? Lets go down #TESCREAL memory lane

"I am currenting consulting on AI safety & governance. In my last job, I was the CEO of the Future Fund...I was a Program Officer for Open Philanthropy, which I joined...as an early employee...I worked on global catastrophic risk reduction, science philanthropy, & effective altruism grants..I was a research fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University...
https://www.nickbeckstead.com/

Nick Beckstead

I am currenting consulting on AI safety and governance. In my last job, I was the CEO of the Future Fund. Before that, I was a Program Officer for Open Philanthropy, which I joined in 2014 as an early employee. There I worked on global catastrophic risk reduction, science philanthropy, and

Show threadTimnit Gebru (she/her).Jun 5, 2023

I did a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Rutgers University, where I wrote a dissertation...on the importance of shaping the distant future and helped launch the Centre for Effective Altruism."

Interesting. What does that dissertation say? 🤔

“Saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects than saving & improving lives in rich countries."

Why? Richer countries have substantially more innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive....

Show threadCharlie Stross
@timnitGebru which is transparently bullshit because rich countries don't stay rich (eg. the UK since 1850) and poor countries don't stay poor (eg. South Korea since 1950). And that's over a period of decades! We have no way of predicting what centuries or millennia will bring: back in 1500 who in Europe would have bet on England eclipsing the Spanish Empire by 1900? (Then cratering within a century?)
Jun 5, 2023 at 10:28pmWeb
Show threaddangrsmindJun 5, 2023
@cstross @timnitGebru which is what I have been saying for over a decade now. Not that anyone cares what I say.
Show thread❓ucblockheadJun 5, 2023
@cstross @timnitGebru Yeah, don't forget that the reason Europeans were so eager to sail their boats far and wide in the 15th-16th centuries was because they were dirt poor and wanted access to that fabulously wealthy empire of China.
Show threadTimothy ClarkJun 5, 2023
@cstross @timnitGebru the EA folks know it's bullshit, and they don't care. they just love all the media stroking and credulous hype for warmed-over eugenics.