This ideology is fundamentally anti progress. You can fight for worker protections, consumer safeguards and more transparency while also recognizing that AI can deliver significant benefits.

“Effective Altruism’s overwhelming maleness, its professional incestuousness, its subculture of polyamory and its overlap with tech-bro dominated ‘rationalist’ groups have combined to create an environment in which sexual misconduct is tolerated, excused, or rationalized away. Several described EA as having a ‘cult-like’ dynamic.”

It's almost impossible to keep up with the advances in AI for creative work (seems like there’s a new breakthrough product or model every day!!) So I pulled a list of the top 40 accounts who are actually hands-on experimenting w models and video/image generation and talking about how AI is reshaping how creatives work. Let me know who you think I should add!! Hands-On Creators & Experimenters (Image, Video, Workflows) 👇👇👇 @DavidSHolz: Midjourney founder @ShaneHegde: Founder/CEO of Air, AI native creative ops @Gossip_Goblin: AI horror creator @c_valenzuelab: Runway co-founder/CEO @medeana: Co-founder Boys Club @pridesai: ops at Tribute Labs @bilawalsidhu: Creative technologist building & reviewing AI workflows @TheoMediaAI: Filmmaker testing and reviewing the new creative-AI stack @dillonrolnick: CEO, Nous Research @techhalla: Prompts and practical generative techniques @heavypulp: Cinematic AI visuals and VFX-style work @egeberkina: High-quality daily AI image drops and prompts @AmirMushich: Brand/ad design and usable generative workflows @PJaccetturo: Viral AI trailers and commercial-style work @henrydaubrez: Creative direction, festival shorts, Google Labs context @charliebcurran: Viral AI filmmaking and distribution insights @lexx_aura: Cinematic AI animation studies @Salmaaboukarr: Higher-end AI content and brand work @Mho_23: AI content systems and production roadmaps @cfryant: Artist/filmmaker perspective on AI commercials and craft @hollyherndon: Experimental music/voice AI and artist-side generative work @simonw: Practical testing of new models and tools the day they ship @emollick: Evidence-based takes on AI (including generative tools) in real work @levelsio: Shipping with AI, practical generative experiments @burkaygur: Founder/CEO, @fal @gorkem: Founder/CTO, @fal @robrombach: Founder/CEO, Black Forest Labs @andi_blatt: Co-founder, Black Forest Labs @weberwongwong: Founder/CEO of Flora, node-based AI media tool @yoland_yan: CEO of Comfy, node-based AI media tool @alexmashrabov: CEO of Higgsfield, leading genAI tool @mjlbach: Founder/CEO of Hedra Labs @gmharhar: Founder/CEO of Mirage (formerly Captions) @nyn531: Founder/CEO of Creatify, AI Ad-maker @sxmawl: Founder/CEO of cardboard, agentic video editor @rezakhadjavi: CEO of Runneth, AI teammate for marketers @viccpoes: CEO of Krea @sashastiles: Experimental AI artist @n0w00j: CEO of Melius @fofrAI: Generative image/video experiments

Imagine if Leading the Future sponsored a New York Magazine cover story and the (rightful!) outrage that would ensue, but these EA orgs and EA money is flooding the legacy journalism industry and there’s effectively zero meaningful backlash or media criticism. It’s appalling

If you’re willing to push doomer narratives about AI you can make hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. And keep in mind this is just what *one* EA org is doling out. It’s an endless money fountain and there’s no equivalent to it on the other side

Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!

I’ve heard from several people who have received these payment offers. The funding is coming from the Future of Life Institute, an Effective Altruist org that’s been flooding the internet with paid content promoting AI doom

@delia_cai No but also we are 7 years into the pandemic and it’s a little wild people aren’t aware of stuff like sip valves. These are what a lot of us have to rely on when we are on flights or have to consume water while being indoors for long periods. It’s rough

This bill would make it illegal to do things like scrape government websites. It would remove the ability to gather information anonymously which would have very bad downstream consequences. I have a video coming out on this next week

A lot of the EA AI safety x risk people have avoided talking about the policies they support to address their concerns with AI, but a look at some of the laws that EA orgs do support should send a chill down your spine

The guy who the entire media is platforming as a brilliant whistleblower is claiming that rationalists have “specialized minds” that make them correct. Mind you we’re talking about people in a doomsday cult who love eugenics

“A low p(doom) is low status”. A big problem rn is that a lot of the discourse around these consequential issues is being shaped by ppl desperately posturing for status in whatever is perceived to be the latest Silicon Valley in group. DC is a fucked up city but at least it values intellectual diversity. In SF it feels like too many people won’t speak their mind lest they get disinvited from Dwarkesh’s birthday party or whatever

I think it’s good that more people are talking about effective altruism and the insidious ways this cult belief system is warping tech policy discussions, even if the criticism is coming from strange places like the DoD