He’s talking specifically about people donating to AMF. There are more things people can do than donate to AMF and donate to one of MIRI, FHI, CEA, and CFAR.
Or simply because the quality of research is positively correlated with ability to secure funding, and thus research that would not be done without your donations generally has the lowest expected value of all research. In case of malaria, we need quantity, in case of AI research, we need quality.
Increasing the quality of the far future. In principle there may be some way to have a lasting impact by making society better off for the indefinite future. I tend to think this is not very unlikely; it would be surprising if a social change (other than a values change or extinction) had an impact lasting for a significant fraction of civilization’s lifespan, and indeed I haven’t seen any plausible examples of such a change.
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I think the most promising interventions at the moment are:
Increase the profile of effective strategies for decision-making, particularly with respect to policy-making and philanthropy.
There is also the possibility that they believe that MIRI/FHI/CEA/CFAR will have no impact on the intelligence explosion or the far future.
He’s talking specifically about people donating to AMF. There are more things people can do than donate to AMF and donate to one of MIRI, FHI, CEA, and CFAR.
Correct.
Or simply because the quality of research is positively correlated with ability to secure funding, and thus research that would not be done without your donations generally has the lowest expected value of all research. In case of malaria, we need quantity, in case of AI research, we need quality.
Given the mention of Christiano above, I want to shout out one of his more important blog posts.
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