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"‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/n…

The US NIST appoints as head of AI safety former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano, who has been criticized for "AI doomer" views and ties to effective altruism (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run US AI safety institute
Former OpenAI researcher once predicted a 50 percent chance of AI killing all of us.

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers.
The 🔸Future of Humanity Institute, 🔸dedicated to the long-termism movement
and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism,
closed this week after 19 years of operation.
Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artifi…

Proposed a tweak to an oncall rotation. Chaos ensues.
... grumbly devs complain about holiday oncall shifts (which were _already_ a problem)
Managers make it worse by
(1) throwing the decision open to entire 50-person team, &
(2) theoretical discussion of what would be "properly incentivized" and "not require altruism"
... management not actually offering any of the "incentives" that they're actually capable of offering …

Ach, Longtermism hat seine Wurzeln im Effective Altruism? Warum bin ich nicht überrascht?

Altruism Improves Congestion in Series-Parallel Nonatomic Congestion Games
Colton Hill, Philip N. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07302 https://

Altruism Improves Congestion in Series-Parallel Nonatomic Congestion Games
Self-interested routing polices from individual users in a system can collectively lead to poor aggregate congestion in routing networks. The introduction of altruistic agents, whose goal is to benefit other agents in the system, can seemingly improve aggregate congestion. However, it is known in that in some network routing problems, altruistic agents can actually worsen congestion compared to that which would arise in the presence of a homogeneously selfish population. This paper provides a t…

"It is plainly obvious to everyone that if you’re going to save the world, one of the first things you have to do is buy a 550-year-old British castle near the University of Oxford for about $15 million. This was the logic in 2021 when members of the so-called Effective Altruism movement’s signature institution bought a posh, 25-bedroom residence called Wytham Abbey as a place to have conferences and stage other various intellectual frolics."

Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Musk’s favorite philosophers.
The 🔸Future of Humanity Institute, 🔸dedicated to the long-termism movement
and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism,
closed this week after 19 years of operation.
Musk had donated £1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artifi…

My #Flancia is [[distributed federated incremental fractal altruism]], what is yours like? :)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05786 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Prompting Fairness: Artificial Intelligence as Game Players
Utilitarian games such as dictator games to measure fairness have been studied in the social sciences for decades. These games have given us insight into not only how humans view fairness but also in what conditions the frequency of fairness, altruism and greed increase or decrease. While these games have traditionally been focused on humans, the rise of AI gives us the ability to study how these models play these games. AI is becoming a constant in human interaction and examining how these mod…