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Effective altruism’s approach to uncertainty and AI safety

A post shares an argument that effective altruists are good at quantifying uncertainty but poor at questioning the conceptual framework behind their numbers.

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The linked essay “EA Safety” criticizes effective altruism’s promise to solve AI safety. A post sharing it quotes the author arguing that effective altruists are “good at expressing uncertainty numerically” but “remarkably bad” at sustaining deeper doubt about the conceptual machinery that generates those numbers.

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Timothy B. Lee@binarybitsEffective Altruists are "good at expressing uncertainty numerically while being remarkably bad at sustaining deeper forms of doubt about the conceptual machinery within which those numbers are generated," argues @vgr https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/ea-safety20d
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    Timothy B. Lee@binarybitsEffective Altruists are "good at expressing uncertainty numerically while being remarkably bad at sustaining deeper forms of doubt about the conceptual machinery within which those numbers are generated," argues @vgr https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/ea-safety20d
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