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AI Art Turing Test (ai-art-turing-test.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh, sorry, I misremembered the link as saying ACX, but you're right, it does say Scott Alexander.

Loved Unsong, I'm sorry you have had bad experiences with rationalists/EAs. :/ Yudkowsky is pretty weird and egotistical, still enjoyed his writing though. Here is a good essay defending EA, just basically reminding you that fundamentally EA is about convincing rich people to donate to life-saving charities; I don't really see why this would be harmful. The biggest criticisms of EA I see are "well there shouldn't be rich people!" -- like, I agree, but, how is that relevant?

Different essay, but I love this quote:

Something else happened that month. On November 11, FTX fell apart and was revealed as a giant scam. Suddenly everyone hated effective altruists. Publications that had been feting us a few months before pivoted to saying they knew we were evil all along. I practiced rehearsing the words “I have never donated to charity, and if I did, I certainly wouldn’t care whether it was effective or not”.