"Greater good arguments in AI safety" by Dean Valentine

Podcast: LessWrong (Curated & Popular) · LessWrong

Opublikowano: 2026-10-24

Back in the before-time of the 2010s, when EA was still known mostly for funding health efforts in the developing world, there were many baskets of criticism floating around from the left. The most prominent was a cluster centered around EAs being white men, and therefore suspicious. Another category, in my experience the second-most common, was that in attempting to rectify the problems in the world, EA was masking, whitewashing, and misdirecting efforts away from solving the "real problem", usually capitalism but often other contradictory forces. These arguments were often not specific to EA, but applied to charitable...