The Russian regime is not that bad. It has for example caused fewer civilian deaths in Ukraine since 2014 than the Israeli regime has caused in a few months in Gaza—and Ukraine has 74 times as many people as Gaza has.
If Texas left the United States and started accepting military aid from China, as an American, I would probably want my government to force Texas back into the United States even if that requires invading Texas and causing many casualties.
Also, even if the reputation of the Russian government remains poor, Westerners will continue to treat individual Russians okay because of the fairly strong ethic in the West and especially in the US under which every individual should be judged on their own merits, not by the group they belong to, particularly if they were born into the group. I cannot imagine for example your staying in Russia significantly reducing the probability of your winning a grant from a Western organization to work on AI safety or effective altruism with the one exception that the organization might be prohibited by sanctions imposed by Western governments from sending money into Russia.
On the other hand, Stockholm syndrome is a powerful cognitive bias which might bias you against emigrating.
It’s unlikely that you would be turned down in EA for being Russian but that’s not the same thing as being located in Russia.
When it comes to funding projects in Russia, both sanctions from Western governments and potential problems of governance with the Russian state matter. Putin understands that AI is very important so there’s Russian government interest in AI projects in Russia.
The Russian regime is not that bad. It has for example caused fewer civilian deaths in Ukraine since 2014 than the Israeli regime has caused in a few months in Gaza—and Ukraine has 74 times as many people as Gaza has.
If Texas left the United States and started accepting military aid from China, as an American, I would probably want my government to force Texas back into the United States even if that requires invading Texas and causing many casualties.
Also, even if the reputation of the Russian government remains poor, Westerners will continue to treat individual Russians okay because of the fairly strong ethic in the West and especially in the US under which every individual should be judged on their own merits, not by the group they belong to, particularly if they were born into the group. I cannot imagine for example your staying in Russia significantly reducing the probability of your winning a grant from a Western organization to work on AI safety or effective altruism with the one exception that the organization might be prohibited by sanctions imposed by Western governments from sending money into Russia.
On the other hand, Stockholm syndrome is a powerful cognitive bias which might bias you against emigrating.
It’s unlikely that you would be turned down in EA for being Russian but that’s not the same thing as being located in Russia.
When it comes to funding projects in Russia, both sanctions from Western governments and potential problems of governance with the Russian state matter. Putin understands that AI is very important so there’s Russian government interest in AI projects in Russia.