EA Safety - by Venkatesh Rao - Contraptions
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EA promises to solve AI Safety. Now we have two problems.
This is going to be one of those rare essays where I feel it is necessary to share some personal history and context for the story to make sense. Over nearly 20 years of writing online, I have a had a sometimes entertaining, sometimes fraught, but always increasingly asymmetric relationship with the rationalist community, or what I will relabel in this essay the EA formation, for reasons that will become clear. The community began as a personal blog (Overcoming Bias) around the same time as my own now-retired blog (Ribbonfarm), around 2006-07. But where the rationalist scene grew from mere…
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