The early effective altruists would have run across these ideas and been persuaded by them, though somewhat more slowly?
I think I doubt this particular point. That EA embraced AI risk (to the extent that it did) seem to me like a fairly contingent historical fact due to LessWrong being one of the three original proto-communities of EA.
I think early EA could have grown into several very different scenes/movements/cultures/communities, in both from and content. That we would have broadly bought into AI risk as an important cause area doesn’t seem overdetermined to me.
I think I doubt this particular point. That EA embraced AI risk (to the extent that it did) seem to me like a fairly contingent historical fact due to LessWrong being one of the three original proto-communities of EA.
I think early EA could have grown into several very different scenes/movements/cultures/communities, in both from and content. That we would have broadly bought into AI risk as an important cause area doesn’t seem overdetermined to me.