EA circles mocked for hunting altruistic AI safety talent for half a decade
fbonacci · x · 2026-09-20
davidmanheim sarcastically describes the AI safety talent pipeline: finding entirely altruistic people with no commercial motive to work on AI safety — exactly what the effective altruist movement has been funding and supporting for half a decade. In the same thread, fbonacci asks whether a pictured person is Musk; davidmanheim notes Musk actually spoke at EA Global back in 2015.
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