The EA case for Trump

post by Judd Rosenblatt (judd) · 2024-08-03T01:00:45.422Z · LW · GW · 1 comments

This is a link post for https://www.secondbest.ca/p/the-ea-case-for-trump-2024

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There’s a decent chance Trump is our next president. In that case, it would be great for him to be AI-alignment-pilled. 

The good news is that, according to Samuel Hammond, he is:

"Unfortunately, the EA vs e/acc debate on Twitter has created the perception that AI safety is left-right polarized. The polls tell a different story. And as a participant on the Project2025 AI policy committee, I can confidently report that Trump’s supposed shadow transition takes AGI and its associated risks seriously."

Or, at least, Sam hopes he will be (alignment-pilled). As of now, “Trump has himself called the prospect of “super-duper AI” “alarming and scary,” though not as scary as China building it first.”

In any case, Sam makes some interesting points in this piece that I think many here might want to read.

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comment by Mitchell_Porter · 2024-08-03T01:55:59.574Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Incidentally, no one here seems to have noticed that Eliezer and Less Wrong were mentioned on Tucker Carlson's latest episode? Replit CEO Amjad Masad gave a history of AI safety which sounds like Emile Torres run through an e/acc filter (and that could literally be how he arrived at his historical narrative).