Carrick Flynn
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Carrick Flynn is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between March 27, 2022 and May 23, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “Carrick Flynn for Congress (he’s running as a Democrat in Oregon)”; “the Carrick Flynn campaign”; “Thanks to everyone who donated to or otherwise supported Carrick Flynn”. It most often appears alongside ACX, ACX Book Review Contest, ACX/LW meetups.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: March 27, 2022
- Last seen: May 23, 2022
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- Baltimore (1 shared issues)
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- Book Review Contest (1 shared issues)
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2: The effective altruists I know are really excited about Carrick Flynn for Congress (he’s running as a Democrat in Oregon). Carrick has fought poverty in Africa, worked on biosecurity and pandemic prevention since 2015, and is a world expert on the intersection of AI safety and public policy (see eg this paper he co-wrote with Nick Bostrom). He also supports normal Democratic priorities like the environment, abortion rights, and universal health care (see here for longer list). See also this endorsement from biosecurity grantmaker Andrew SB.
1: There’s a great new article out on effective altruism and the Carrick Flynn campaign: The Esoteric Social Movement Behind This Cycle’s Most Expensive House Race. “Flynn . . . remains confident that even a small number of lawmakers, armed with the ideas of effective altruism, can bend the hinge away from destruction and back toward flourishing.” And my friend Miranda interviewed him here, along with Dylan Matthews from Vox. Although the articles mention his generous PAC support, Flynn can’t use that money himself, and he still needs a last infusion of direct funding for his real campaign before the election on Tuesday. If interested, please donate here, up to a maximum of $2900 for the primary and general. I think this is important enough that I’ve donated and moved the Open Thread a day early to get this announcement out when it can still do some good.
2: Thanks to everyone who donated to or otherwise supported Carrick Flynn. Unfortunately he didn’t win. Some discussion here. I’m not sorry for urging people to support him; I think it was a good bet in expectation. I might be sorry for saying I thought he was more likely to win than the prediction markets said; I was going off rumors of positive polls, and I still need to figure out what happened there.
Inline links: here