Greta Thunberg
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Greta Thunberg is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between August 08, 2022 and October 10, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as ""maybe Greta Thunberg would get bored of protesting climate change and become a coal baron""; “I’m not sure either of them is as powerful as … Greta Thunberg”; “That’s like finding out that Greta Thunberg’s Chief of Staff spent their spare time writing a 400-page, densely researched book”. It most often appears alongside Elon Musk, Anthropic, California.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: August 08, 2022
- Last seen: October 10, 2024
Appears In
- Why Not Slow AI Progress?
- Highlights From The Comments On Billionaire Replaceability
- Your Book Review: Dominion
- SB 1047: Our Side Of The Story
Related Pages
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- Elon Musk (3 shared issues)
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- Anthropic (2 shared issues)
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- California (2 shared issues)
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- facebook (2 shared issues)
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- Google (2 shared issues)
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- Mark Zuckerberg (2 shared issues)
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- Microsoft (2 shared issues)
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- Sam Altman (2 shared issues)
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- 2023 special (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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- 80,000 Hours (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Imagine if oil companies and environmental activists were both considered part of the broader “fossil fuel community”. Exxon and Shell would be “fossil fuel capabilities”; Greenpeace and the Sierra Club would be “fossil fuel safety” - two equally beloved parts of the rich diverse tapestry of fossil fuel-related work. They would all go to the same parties - fossil fuel community parties - and maybe Greta Thunberg would get bored of protesting climate change and become a coal baron.
And I’m not sure either of them is as powerful as Jon Stewart, Tucker Carlson, Thomas Piketty, Martin Luther King, Greta Thunberg, George Clooney, Ezra Klein, or any of hundreds of other people. Heck, I’m not sure they’re as powerful as the average state-level teachers’ union official. I think if you weren’t already predisposed to hate billionaires because of socialism, you would freak out about the level of power held by all those people before you started freaking out about Bill Gates or someone.
Matthew Scully, author of Dominion, is an unlikely animal welfare advocate. He’s a conservative Christian who worked as a speechwriter for George W. Bush. That’s like finding out that Greta Thunberg’s Chief of Staff spent their spare time writing a 400-page, densely researched book called “Guns Are Good, Actually.”
Encode Justice needs to be snapped up by some documentary-maker as an inspiring human interest story. Some teenagers decided the world needed to hear the voice of the youth on AI and founded an "intergenerational call for global AI action". Their leader is already being called "the Greta Thunberg of AI". Over four years, they’ve scaled up to “a mass movement of a thousand young people across every inhabited continent". I cannot even imagine how good all of this is going to look on their college applications.
Inline links: Encode Justice, "the Greta Thunberg of AI"