🚨🇺🇸🇺🇸 DATAREPUBLICAN 2.0 LAUNCH, FEATURING THE EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM (EA) EXPLORER 🇺🇸 The website redesign has finally landed thanks to Cory Watilo ! For a decade, one small ideological network has been taking over AI governance. Chances are, if you've heard of AI policy, AI ethics, AI safety - these... groups are dominated by this ideology. This ideology is called: Effective Altruism. Three weeks ago, Effective Altruists (EAs) showed their hand when they started calling for a moratarium on AI development. Since them, I've been building out this map to show the circularity of their ideology. Let's take one example. Holden Karnofsky. Defends the moral worth of digital people ... that's right, he wrote an article on why AI "people" should be assigned value as if they were living humans. Karnofsky co-founded two major EA philanthropies, GiveWell and Open Philanthropy. Subsequently went to work for METR, a central "independent" AI research nonprofit. And for good measure - recently announced a leave of absence to work on AI safety. Funding, policy, research, safety all in the same person. And he's far from the only one. EAs have created a closed-circuit network because they believe they're right; ergo, they should be in charge. The goal of launching this project was to expose all this circularity. Sam Bankman-Fried was only the beginning. With the EA Explorer: * 🌐 Read an introduction to Effective Altruism in their own words. * 🔥 Explore verified quotes. Again, their words, not mine. * 🖥️ Explore the network of connections. UI improvements still in progress. * 🖨️ Print out networks so you can study them offline (or run them through AI) 👇 Try it now (link in next post):show more

Root page:

If you don't feel like you have a good understanding of Effective Altruism, take the Tour first:

Although AI is not the topic of my upcoming book Unelected, EAs are nonetheless a good example of elites taking the function of government without consent.

. @PassagePress is doing a run of 1,000 more copies of the signed version of Unelected. If you missed out on the rush last time, order here:

Regular editions ready for pre-order, for launch on October 20. Those who order from Passage will enjoy their copy a week early. I'll show some previews tomorrow! Amazon: Barnes and Noble: Books-a-Million:

I will have a podcast with @PSPod25 tonight to go over the website itself and how to use it at 9:30 PM ET.

@watilo Seems like something you'd agree with?

@watilo You need to have a seminar with journalists from DailyWire, Breitbart, Fox, Wash Examiner, NYP, etc, and talk them through the tool and how they can find stories from it. The work is great, but there's no end product for normies to read about over breakfast.

@WKortepeter @watilo I’m so excited about this!

@JoshuaLisec @watilo Thanks for concentrating the vastly dispersed and asymmetric information so that it is readily available to us mortals!

@watilo 👏 HUGE congratulations on the DataRepublican 2.0 launch! A lot of work clearly went into this. Nice job! 🇺🇸🔥

I've unearthed archived documentation and social media posts linked to Zohran Mamdani's campaign consultant bestie Linda Sarsour and her expressed solidarity with the Hamas terrorist organization's affiliate in South Africa and her promotion of pro-Hamas and pro-Muslim Brotherhood Imam Omar Suleiman. And of course Sarsour is linked to all of the radicalized DSA candidates for congress.

@watilo The labels they give themselves is always the opposite of what they do. The labels they give opponents, is always projection.

@watilo if a handful of people shape ai policy, people should be able to see who funds them and where they work. put the connections in plain sight.

I believe you expend this effort because you believe that a more informed society is a more empowered society and I'm sure you're absolutley correct. Perahps if you (or someone in your stead) could explain what the usefulness of this is for us laypersons it would help the empowerment. It's like reading a calculus book, we all can read it but few will understand it and even fewer will ever apply it.

@watilo Nothing says pluralism like finding the same names at the funding, policy and safety desks. The stakeholder map may now require its own stakeholder map.

@watilo Very nice 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Very very nice

@watilo You once did good work until you allowed Hegsdeath to take over. Now you propagandize for the state. Shame on you. TRAITOR!

@watilo Simply simply amazing. Kudos. Continuous genius moves. Alright the rest of you geniuses get on this and let's see what happens.

@watilo Expose them all! Then they may be held accountable otherwise we will simply watch our society destroyed by Extinctionists.

@watilo Nice FEDsite

@CynicalPublius @watilo 🤯 I’m damn glad you’re on our team. 🇺🇸

@watilo

@watilo You’re the best!

@watilo This is clearly a piece of misinformation. It blatantly ignores anything that doesn't serve it's political objectives, e.g. on the Future of Life Institute's website. Reported.

@watilo Did you check the links? That’s what they’re for! Here’s FLI’s founder speaking.

@watilo Very nicely put together.

@astrarce @watilo Having started and run a data company, I so appreciate the work you do and the quality of that work. Thank you.

@watilo Missed the first round of signed books, but one is on order. I wished you would have added these after the first batch was all spoken for.

@watilo You are a national treasure ♥️. Thank you for all you do!

@watilo It feels pretty misleading to put heavily downvoted quotes as example of "what EAs believe". For example, the example democracy quote comes from this post, sitting at -5 karma on LessWrong.

@JoshuaLisec @watilo Nice! Would be nice to set up this and other work as MCP for agents to access.

@watilo Can you go Canada please 🙏?

@watilo They've created their own little ecosystem.

@watilo The people writing AI governance never appeared on a ballot either.

@watilo Thank you!

@JoshuaLisec @watilo Thank you!

@watilo Small but IMPORTANT correction: >showed their hand when they started calling for a moratarium on AI development A moratarium on AI development BY PLEBS. . It should only be for Special People. . Absolutely standard pattern in the Hard-Left, you'll notice.

@watilo They have quite a media operation

@watilo @grok How many of the quotes on the main "in their own words" page were downvoted on LessWrong/EA Forum? How many received pushback?