“A tale of two Sams” by Geoffrey Miller

After Sam Bankman-Fried proved to be a sociopathic fraudster and a massive embarrassment to EA, we did much soul-searching about what EAs did wrong, in failing to detect and denounce his sociopathic traits. We spent, collectively, thousands of hours ruminating about what we can do better, next time we encounter an unprincipled leader who acts like it's OK to abuse and betray people to pursue their grandiose vision, who gets caught up in runaway greed for wealth and power, who violates core EA values, and who threatens the long-term flourishing of sentient beings. Well, that time is now. Sam Altman at OpenAI has been proving himself, again and again, in many different domains and issues, to be a manipulative, deceptive, unwise, and arrogant leader, driven by hubris to build AGI as fast as possible, with no serious concern about the extinction risks he's imposing on us all. We [...] --- First published: May 21st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SbwPrRW3SeRtiLqvF/a-tale-of-two-sams --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.