the reception to EA forum posts like this and this
If EA is about to embark on some renaissance of ambition, then that’s great news as far as I’m concerned. EA was brought low through a combination of attacks from e/acc panglossians, attacks from leftists who think “TESCREAL” is an insult, and the implosion of FTX (whose demise I suspect was as much political as it was self-inflicted, but that’s another story).
Apparently these ambitions are being stirred by the hope that Anthropic will provide a more sustainable wellspring of EA philanthropy. Corporate vibe coding would replace crypto speculation as the source of the big bucks, so to speak. The extent to which the availability of these funds can be relied upon is unclear to me. But certainly, intellectually, EA never deserved to disappear from the battlefield of ideas.
If EA is about to embark on some renaissance of ambition, then that’s great news as far as I’m concerned. EA was brought low through a combination of attacks from e/acc panglossians, attacks from leftists who think “TESCREAL” is an insult, and the implosion of FTX (whose demise I suspect was as much political as it was self-inflicted, but that’s another story).
Apparently these ambitions are being stirred by the hope that Anthropic will provide a more sustainable wellspring of EA philanthropy. Corporate vibe coding would replace crypto speculation as the source of the big bucks, so to speak. The extent to which the availability of these funds can be relied upon is unclear to me. But certainly, intellectually, EA never deserved to disappear from the battlefield of ideas.
See my comment here under one of those posts. I otherwise agree with what you say.