Researcher weighs EA and AI x-risk discourse: real contributions, but truth-seeking derailed
Dr_Atoosa · x · 2026-09-10
In a thread, DrAtoosa argues many people concerned about AI catastrophic risk are entirely outside EA and YR circles yet must grapple with their language and framings. She credits early Effective Altruism with data-driven attention to solvable problems and terms like "reward hacking" that spawned real research, while cautioning that as communities grew, truth-seeking gave way to power and status dynamics.
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