I wouldn’t say I “nudged” him. He was doing it. I invested since I thought it was a good investment (it has been). They had no problem raising money, and my investment replaced part of one of the other investors’ cheques.
Thanks for clarifying this.
I have donated a lot of money recently to animal welfare (~$450k in the last 5 months). I would have donated less if I had not had this investment.
Mechanize sells environments to AI labs (this is where all revenue comes from) and so if you think investing in the labs is ok, so should investing in Mechanize.
I personally don’t endorse investing in labs in order to later donate to AI Safety/Animal Welfare causes, for reasons similar to those discussed by Wei Dai here, and have turned down opportunities to do so. But reasonable people disagree on this topic.
Thanks for clarifying this.
I personally don’t endorse investing in labs in order to later donate to AI Safety/Animal Welfare causes, for reasons similar to those discussed by Wei Dai here, and have turned down opportunities to do so. But reasonable people disagree on this topic.