Will MacAskill could serve as exemplar. More broadly I’m thinking of people who might have called themselves ‘longtermists’ or who hybridized Bostrom with Peter Singer.
Makes sense. Toby Ord? Does Anders count? Or the actual Bostrom? I think that crowd did better than OP by quite a bit, and the wider Oxford AI safety community was quite good. I only met them months before ChatGPT. Will seems still surprisingly (from my view over-) optimistic, but is doing some pretty relevant and good work right now, and is usually careful to caveat where his optimistic assumptions are loadbearing.
(I’d say yes to Toby, who was a figurehead for the movement and cofounder GWWC, but no to Anders/Bostrom, who were far more removed politically and philosophically.)
Will MacAskill could serve as exemplar. More broadly I’m thinking of people who might have called themselves ‘longtermists’ or who hybridized Bostrom with Peter Singer.
Makes sense. Toby Ord? Does Anders count? Or the actual Bostrom? I think that crowd did better than OP by quite a bit, and the wider Oxford AI safety community was quite good. I only met them months before ChatGPT. Will seems still surprisingly (from my view over-) optimistic, but is doing some pretty relevant and good work right now, and is usually careful to caveat where his optimistic assumptions are loadbearing.
(I’d say yes to Toby, who was a figurehead for the movement and cofounder GWWC, but no to Anders/Bostrom, who were far more removed politically and philosophically.)