(Overtime audio available to paid subscribers through the player at the top of the page and video version available below the paywall.)
0:00 Effective altruism (EA) and Rob’s 80,000 Hours podcast
2:42 SBF’s fall = EA’s public relations problem
11:45 What went wrong for (and with) SBF?
28:37 Virtue as a utilitarian shortcut
38:11 What drove EA’s longtermist (r)evolution?
45:50 EA, AI, and the miscalculation of existential risk
53:13 Did EA play a role in the OpenAI board drama?
1:00:48 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Rob Wiblin (80,000 Hours). Recorded January 11, 2024.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods
Overtime titles:
0:00 The racier side of the rationalist movement
6:09 Does EA really fit into the TESCREAL bundle?
15:27 Where people get EA wrong
22:13 EA, superintelligence, and the singularity
35:36 What Rob fears most about rogue AI
39:51 The double-edged sword of AI-empowered authorities
53:31 Can we flatten the curve of AI’s societal disruption?
