I don’t know enough about Maple to have an opinion on it. Here I am operating on feelings, and they remind me of Leverage Research. A project separate enough, so it’s not my business what they are doing… except when they fuck up, and then it becomes an “abuse in the rationalist community”. Also, they recruit a lot in the rationalist community.
These projects are justified by potential benefits, but I also see some potential negative externalities. (And by the same Pascalian logic, we should be extra careful about bad things happening to people who want to save the world?)
I don’t know enough about Maple to have an opinion on it. Here I am operating on feelings, and they remind me of Leverage Research. A project separate enough, so it’s not my business what they are doing… except when they fuck up, and then it becomes an “abuse in the rationalist community”. Also, they recruit a lot in the rationalist community.
These projects are justified by potential benefits, but I also see some potential negative externalities. (And by the same Pascalian logic, we should be extra careful about bad things happening to people who want to save the world?)