The Nonlinear Library EA - Spencer Greenberg and William MacAskill: What should the EA movement learn from the SBF/FTX scandal? by AnonymousTurtle
Apr 16, 2024
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Spencer Greenberg and William MacAskill: What should the EA movement learn from the SBF/FTX scandal?, published by AnonymousTurtle on April 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.
What are the facts around Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX about which all parties agree? What was the nature of Will's relationship with SBF? What things, in retrospect, should've been red flags about Sam or FTX? Was Sam's personality problematic? Did he ever really believe in EA principles? Does he lack empathy? Or was he on the autism spectrum? Was he naive in his application of utilitarianism? Did EA intentionally install SBF as a spokesperson, or did he put himself in that position of his own
accord? What lessons should EA leaders learn from this? What steps should be taken to prevent it from happening again? What should EA leadership look like moving forward? What are some of the dangers around AI that are not related to alignment? Should AI become the central (or even the sole) focus of the EA movement?
the Clearer Thinking podcast is aimed more at people in or related to EA, whereas Sam Harris's wasn't
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What are the facts around Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX about which all parties agree? What was the nature of Will's relationship with SBF? What things, in retrospect, should've been red flags about Sam or FTX? Was Sam's personality problematic? Did he ever really believe in EA principles? Does he lack empathy? Or was he on the autism spectrum? Was he naive in his application of utilitarianism? Did EA intentionally install SBF as a spokesperson, or did he put himself in that position of his own
accord? What lessons should EA leaders learn from this? What steps should be taken to prevent it from happening again? What should EA leadership look like moving forward? What are some of the dangers around AI that are not related to alignment? Should AI become the central (or even the sole) focus of the EA movement?
the Clearer Thinking podcast is aimed more at people in or related to EA, whereas Sam Harris's wasn't
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org