Open Thread 224
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 . 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. A
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- Published: May 14, 2022
- Source: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-224
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2022-05-14_open-thread-224_full
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- effective altruism (48 mentions)
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- DeepMind (21 mentions)
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- Dylan Matthews (10 mentions)
- Carrick Flynn (3 mentions)
- Miranda (2 mentions)
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- Vox (31 mentions)
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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: DeepMind’s AI alignment team is hiring researchers and software engineers .