Do short AI timelines make other cause areas useless? — EA Forum Bots
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The cause prioritization landscape in EA is changing. Prominent groups have shut down, others have been founded, and everyone’s trying to figure out…
Rohin Shah 11mo 38 9 2 We are disputing a general heuristic that privileges the AI cause area and writes off all the others. I think the most important argument towards this conclusion is "AI is a big deal, so we should prioritize work that makes it go better". But it seems you have placed this argument out of scope: [The claim we are interested in is] that the coming AI revolution undercuts the justification for doing work in other cause areas, rendering work in those areas useless, or nearly so (for now, and perhaps forever). [...] AI causes might be more cost-effective than projects in othe
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