for completeness here's a response to the main concern of that vox article (AI risk) http://effective-altruism.com/ea/m4/a_response_to_matthews_on_ai_risk/ …
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I can’t tell if that author does/doesn’t believe AI risk more important than poverty.
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The naive/simplistic thing is to say, "You're crazy that AI could rival poverty in importance." That's naive.
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spending all available charitable donations on AI risk is problematic because of Pascal's Mugging.
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Is EA leadership proposing spending all charitable donations on AI risk?
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It doesn't look like there is "leadership" but a number of people openly say so, including in the article.
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see the last survey: http://effective-altruism.com/ea/zw/the_2015_survey_of_effective_altruists_results/ … tl;dr most popular cause is poverty, top charities are AMF/SCI/GD
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there *is* a small bias favoring AI risk, but articles like the vox one make it seem like it's a majority
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it's talking about the people who believe it, many of whom have lots of $
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Still, doesn't seem representative of technologists at large. Seems like you're speaking about a vocal faction.
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I believe it's a surprising number of people, but not close to a majority.
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vocal faction can still dominate discussions and make more nuanced discussions difficult.
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