I want to write about effective altruism but there is an effective altruist inside my head

We are about to go into EAG.

We are about to go into EAG. Something feels wronger than normal. “What are you writing about”, he asks. “I --” “I think it would be really high-value to write an overview of the funding landscape for AI safety right now, given the IPO and…” I agree. But I don’t want to talk about it. Instead, I launch into something between a reverie and a manifesto. “Max”, I say (I don’t know his name, but this is usually right), “I want to write about: What it felt like, twelve years ago, to fall in love with the first people and ideas to ever make actual fucking sense to me; What it felt like…

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• Aiden Kim

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• Notes on Effective Altruismmichaelnotebook.com
• Haikus about Effective Altruismevjang.com
• The Effective-Altruism Comebackweb.archive.org
• Saving Everyone, Everywhere, Across Space and Time - 34th Street Magazine34st.com
• Effective altruism in the garden of ends — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• The Worst Are Full Of Passionate Intensity: An Anthropology of AI Safetyfromthenew.world
• What is effective altruism? | Effective Altruismeffectivealtruism.org
• EA and the current funding situation — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
• The AI people have been right a lotsubstack.com
• Changing the world for the worse — LessWronglesswrong.com
• The Deaths of Effective Altruism | WIREDwired.com
• A guide to the AI tribes - by Michel Justen - What is thismicheljusten.substack.com