I mean yes: If you do good things, your image will probably improve. As I said, that part doesn’t seem wrong to me.
Apart from that, I’m not convinced we actually know that he didn’t have genuine altruistic interest in donating money to certain charities. Do we have evidence one way or the other?
Also, just practically speaking, if it was for publicity, it would have been more effective to donate to cancer hospitals or starving orphans in Africa than to a weird and seemingly cult-like organization like SIAI.
Surely if you’re around those parts you should know that billionaire philanthropy is generally ineffective and not focused on effective interventions in global health and development. Epstein was primarily known as a philanthropist focused on academic and nonprofit scientific research, hence the high amount of famous/Ivy League scientists in his social circle. According to Eliezer’s account he didn’t understand SIAI’s beliefs on alignment.
I mean yes: If you do good things, your image will probably improve. As I said, that part doesn’t seem wrong to me.
Apart from that, I’m not convinced we actually know that he didn’t have genuine altruistic interest in donating money to certain charities. Do we have evidence one way or the other?
Also, just practically speaking, if it was for publicity, it would have been more effective to donate to cancer hospitals or starving orphans in Africa than to a weird and seemingly cult-like organization like SIAI.
Surely if you’re around those parts you should know that billionaire philanthropy is generally ineffective and not focused on effective interventions in global health and development. Epstein was primarily known as a philanthropist focused on academic and nonprofit scientific research, hence the high amount of famous/Ivy League scientists in his social circle. According to Eliezer’s account he didn’t understand SIAI’s beliefs on alignment.