The claim that most EAs want to look like they’re contributing to AI safety rather than having a deep commitment is just deeply at odds to my personal experience. The EAs I meet are in general the most committed people to solving problems that I’ve ever met. I might try to come up with a more systematic argument for this, but my gut is that that’s crazy.
This may be random or something, but in my experience there is a higher probability that rationality people aren’t committed to solving problems and want to use rationality to improve their lives personally. But outside view is that this shouldn’t be surprising given that the core of the rationality movement is trying have true beliefs.
The claim that most EAs want to look like they’re contributing to AI safety rather than having a deep commitment is just deeply at odds to my personal experience. The EAs I meet are in general the most committed people to solving problems that I’ve ever met. I might try to come up with a more systematic argument for this, but my gut is that that’s crazy.
This may be random or something, but in my experience there is a higher probability that rationality people aren’t committed to solving problems and want to use rationality to improve their lives personally. But outside view is that this shouldn’t be surprising given that the core of the rationality movement is trying have true beliefs.