Holden Karnofsky

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Holden Karnofsky is a co-founder of effective altruism, and pioneered GiveWell.

He was the CEO of Open Philanthropy, but is currently on a leave of absence to work on AI Safety.

In May 2012, Karnofsky posted Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI), which became the most-upvoted article ever on Less Wrong. It offered a detailed critique of what is now the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and spawned a great deal of discussion.

MIRI staff posted two replies:

Paul Crowley (“ciphergoth”) posted discussion articles for each point raised:

Other discussion:

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