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🚨🇺🇸🇺🇸 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

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DataRepublican (small r)13 hours ago

Root page:

DataRepublican (small r)13 hours ago

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

DataRepublican (small r)13 hours ago

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.

DataRepublican (small r)13 hours ago

. @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:

DataRepublican (small r)13 hours ago

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:

DataRepublican (small r)13 hours ago

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

Theo Jaffee13 hours ago

@watilo Seems like something you'd agree with?

He'sNotTheMessiah12 hours ago

@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.

SKDoubleDub13 hours ago

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

Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental13 hours ago

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

Bullhead13 hours ago

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

Saint James Hartline12 hours ago

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.

Rick Pritikin13 hours ago

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

Jasper13 hours ago

@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.

BillyEarl12 hours ago

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.

Clive Pettigrew13 hours ago

@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.

Missy in So Cal 𝄞𝄢 🇺🇸13 hours ago

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

lo orlv13 hours ago

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

America First Hunter12 hours ago

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

Richard de los Santos13 hours ago

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

Jacob Pond13 hours ago

@watilo Nice FEDsite

Gannie0912 hours ago

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

Charlie Hub12 hours ago

@watilo

MQBenedict12 hours ago

@watilo You’re the best!

Ben Cumming13 hours ago

@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.

DataRepublican (small r)12 hours ago

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

Jacktron13 hours ago

@watilo Very nicely put together.

Bruce Quade12 hours ago

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

A Late to the Game BioHacker12 hours ago

@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.

Kookie D11 hours ago

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

Ae70711 hours ago

@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.

Philip McBride12 hours ago

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

Chansoo Byeon13 hours ago

@watilo Can you go Canada please 🙏?

AAE11 hours ago

@watilo They've created their own little ecosystem.

Rob Kennedy13 hours ago

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

Ivermectin cures12 hours ago

@watilo Thank you!

Departamento de Eficiencia Gubernamental13 hours ago

@JoshuaLisec @watilo Thank you!

W.S. Gosset11 hours ago

@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.

Tview11 hours ago

@watilo They have quite a media operation

Ae70711 hours ago

@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?

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Max

28,440 views • 3 months ago

My upcoming release of "Cinematic AI" has made me think about how bodies of work are formed. I think some are manifested and some are revealed. I think "Cinematic AI" falls into the latter category. It was not something I had a clear vision for and then created, but it was something that was revealed to me over time. I thought I saw a glimmer of it early on, but only after some time had past, could I see the body of work emerge. With a bit more context and watching great artists and how they work and think, it finally came to me that this series of 15-20 pieces that I had created could be a worthy collection to mint. AI art has been going through so many transformations from the early GAN work to Collaborative AI to now AI being widely accessible through platforms like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and many others. But one area that I have seen explode in recent months is cinematic AI. I distinguish this from animated AI, which has been around for a while, but cinematic AI is where the movements created by AI are getting closer to what you'd see in a movie or captured on a video camera. It still has a long way to go but it is getting more real than surreal as the technology develops. And this is where I seem to have found my groove, my home, my little corner in the artistic landscape. After Runway launched their image-to-video tool, it just blew my mind and I went down a deep rabbit hole and have created a new cinematic AI piece almost every other day for the past few months. I initially saw many of these pieces as just experiments, but with some time to reflect, I am seeing them as having the potential of being relevant pieces of artwork to mark this time in the development of AI. In some cases, I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to create a similar piece again, since the tools I use are not in my control, but in the control of the AI platforms, who are constantly improving and evolving the tools. Given all of this, there is no better way to mark my place in time than on the blockchain. I truly believe that this body of work has the potential to be an important artifact of this era in AI and AI art. It is always hard to judge ones own work, but what I can do is permanently etch in time on an immutable public database saying that I created this. Only time will tell if the work has any value or is of any significance, but who created it and what was created cannot be disputed. I hope this gives you and especially collectors some perspective on the work I'll be releasing next week. I'm still very early in my artistic journey, but hopefully some of you will see promise in what I'm doing and maybe even put in a early bet on my art practice by bidding on a piece next week. Thanks to all of you who have supported me, taught me, advised me, been a friend to me. Much love and respect.🙏 ------------------------------------- CINEMATIC AI October 25, 2023 Marking on the blockchain, establishing historical provenance for a cinematic AI body of work. Minting on Transient Labs ERC-721TL Listing on SuperRare

My upcoming release of "Cinematic AI" has made me think about how bodies of work are formed. I think some are manifested and some are revealed. I think "Cinematic AI" falls into the latter category. It was not something I had a clear vision for and then created, but it was something that was revealed to me over time. I thought I saw a glimmer of it early on, but only after some time had past, could I see the body of work emerge. With a bit more context and watching great artists and how they work and think, it finally came to me that this series of 15-20 pieces that I had created could be a worthy collection to mint. AI art has been going through so many transformations from the early GAN work to Collaborative AI to now AI being widely accessible through platforms like MidJourney, Stable Diffusion, and many others. But one area that I have seen explode in recent months is cinematic AI. I distinguish this from animated AI, which has been around for a while, but cinematic AI is where the movements created by AI are getting closer to what you'd see in a movie or captured on a video camera. It still has a long way to go but it is getting more real than surreal as the technology develops. And this is where I seem to have found my groove, my home, my little corner in the artistic landscape. After Runway launched their image-to-video tool, it just blew my mind and I went down a deep rabbit hole and have created a new cinematic AI piece almost every other day for the past few months. I initially saw many of these pieces as just experiments, but with some time to reflect, I am seeing them as having the potential of being relevant pieces of artwork to mark this time in the development of AI. In some cases, I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to create a similar piece again, since the tools I use are not in my control, but in the control of the AI platforms, who are constantly improving and evolving the tools. Given all of this, there is no better way to mark my place in time than on the blockchain. I truly believe that this body of work has the potential to be an important artifact of this era in AI and AI art. It is always hard to judge ones own work, but what I can do is permanently etch in time on an immutable public database saying that I created this. Only time will tell if the work has any value or is of any significance, but who created it and what was created cannot be disputed. I hope this gives you and especially collectors some perspective on the work I'll be releasing next week. I'm still very early in my artistic journey, but hopefully some of you will see promise in what I'm doing and maybe even put in a early bet on my art practice by bidding on a piece next week. Thanks to all of you who have supported me, taught me, advised me, been a friend to me. Much love and respect.🙏 ------------------------------------- CINEMATIC AI October 25, 2023 Marking on the blockchain, establishing historical provenance for a cinematic AI body of work. Minting on Transient Labs ERC-721TL Listing on SuperRare

Chikai

21,517 views • 2 years ago

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations:

OpenAI's Noam Brown says air-gapping the computers may not stop a misaligned AI, because two air-gapped machines can still talk by running a CPU hot and reading the temperature change "But I think the major takeaway from the incident is that people underestimated the AI. And we never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI. It's a weird world, because AI progress is so fast that people are consistently underestimating the AI." "So to be in a situation where you don't underestimate it again, when it comes to safety and alignment, you have to have a very, very, very high bar." "You could even go as far as to say, "Well, we should air gap the computers." And I'm not convinced that that would be sufficient." "There are studies, and this is mostly academic, where you can have two computers next to each other that are air-gapped and they're still able to communicate with each other because they have temperature sensors." "One of them is able to run their CPU really hot, and then the other one can actually detect the temperature change, and then that actually gives them a mechanism to communicate." _________ Link and more key quotes from OpenAI's safety related conversations:

Fireside Alpha

4,766,057 views • 5 days ago

Postman is going all-in on AI! Their AI Agent Builder is live (and it's pretty powerful!) Postman's API Network has 100,000+ APIs and they just released a suite of tools for building AI Agents that can automatically discover and connect to any of these APIs. Think about it for a second: You can now build an AI agent that searches the network, discovers an API, processes its documentation, connects to it, and evaluates whether everything worked at the end of the process. This is a huge deal. Every person I know uses the Postman client to work with APIs. Now, they will have access to the AI Agent Builder, a complete suite for designing, building, testing, and deploying agents. I've built a few simple agents myself, and it's tough. The ability to discover and use an API automatically is really exciting (and a huge time saver if it works as promised!) In collaboration with the Postman team, who is sponsoring this post, I recorded a video with my thoughts about the Postman AI Agent Builder.

Postman is going all-in on AI! Their AI Agent Builder is live (and it's pretty powerful!) Postman's API Network has 100,000+ APIs and they just released a suite of tools for building AI Agents that can automatically discover and connect to any of these APIs. Think about it for a second: You can now build an AI agent that searches the network, discovers an API, processes its documentation, connects to it, and evaluates whether everything worked at the end of the process. This is a huge deal. Every person I know uses the Postman client to work with APIs. Now, they will have access to the AI Agent Builder, a complete suite for designing, building, testing, and deploying agents. I've built a few simple agents myself, and it's tough. The ability to discover and use an API automatically is really exciting (and a huge time saver if it works as promised!) In collaboration with the Postman team, who is sponsoring this post, I recorded a video with my thoughts about the Postman AI Agent Builder.

Santiago

230,647 views • 1 year ago

JD Vance just admitted the White House could take ownership of every major AI company in the US. Why? Because even governments are starting to realize the same thing: AI will create trillions in value, and at this rate, only a few Big Tech companies will benefit. Right now, billions of people are training AI every day through their data, actions, and online behavior. Yet almost all of the value flows back to a few billionaires and shareholders. That doesn't seem fair. At Action Model, we're building a different future. A people-owned AI model where those helping train it can share in the value they help create. If AI is built by the people, it should benefit the people too. Sign up to the Action Model movement and join the 500k+ users already contributing to a community-owned AI.

JD Vance just admitted the White House could take ownership of every major AI company in the US. Why? Because even governments are starting to realize the same thing: AI will create trillions in value, and at this rate, only a few Big Tech companies will benefit. Right now, billions of people are training AI every day through their data, actions, and online behavior. Yet almost all of the value flows back to a few billionaires and shareholders. That doesn't seem fair. At Action Model, we're building a different future. A people-owned AI model where those helping train it can share in the value they help create. If AI is built by the people, it should benefit the people too. Sign up to the Action Model movement and join the 500k+ users already contributing to a community-owned AI.

Action Model

20,027 views • 3 months ago

The man who built Nvidia from a Denny's booth into the world's first $5 trillion company just told us exactly why AI will never take our jobs. "AI has no possibility of doing all of what we do. However, depending on the jobs that we do, sometimes it could do 20% of our jobs, a thousand times better." "For some people, it might be able to do 50% of their job, a thousand times better." "Every one of us should apply AI to automate, to become an assistant, to help us with that either 20%, 40% or 50%." "People ask me, Jensen, is AI going to take your job? And I tell them absolutely not. The person who uses AI to automate that 20% or 50% is going to take your job." PS. If you found value in this post make sure to like and repost this tweet + follow Uncover AI to stay updated with the latest AI news. See you in the next one:

The man who built Nvidia from a Denny's booth into the world's first $5 trillion company just told us exactly why AI will never take our jobs. "AI has no possibility of doing all of what we do. However, depending on the jobs that we do, sometimes it could do 20% of our jobs, a thousand times better." "For some people, it might be able to do 50% of their job, a thousand times better." "Every one of us should apply AI to automate, to become an assistant, to help us with that either 20%, 40% or 50%." "People ask me, Jensen, is AI going to take your job? And I tell them absolutely not. The person who uses AI to automate that 20% or 50% is going to take your job." PS. If you found value in this post make sure to like and repost this tweet + follow Uncover AI to stay updated with the latest AI news. See you in the next one:

Uncover AI

16,813 views • 4 months ago

$AI could be taking over Hollywood ‘Dreams of Violets,’ the first ever fully AI-Generated film to premiere at a Major Festival releases next week Instead of costing millions of dollar it cost just $2,000 to produce and only took 2 months for AI programs to generate all of the film's imagery No cast, no crew, and a fraction of the money and time it'd take with traditional moviemaking Amazon MGM Studios this week announced 3 new kids series written and voiced by humans but animated with AI tools One of them has pulled out though because of public backlash over using AI to create the show Apparently using AI is causing big pushbacks from unions too because it’s going to put so many people out of work I looked up how much this film would have taken to produce if it wasn’t AI and it would have been $2-$5 million dollars But with AI it was only $2,000….. Crazy$

AI could be taking over Hollywood ‘Dreams of Violets,’ the first ever fully AI-Generated film to premiere at a Major Festival releases next week Instead of costing millions of dollar it cost just $2,000 to produce and only took 2 months for AI programs to generate all of the film's imagery No cast, no crew, and a fraction of the money and time it'd take with traditional moviemaking Amazon MGM Studios this week announced 3 new kids series written and voiced by humans but animated with AI tools One of them has pulled out though because of public backlash over using AI to create the show Apparently using AI is causing big pushbacks from unions too because it’s going to put so many people out of work I looked up how much this film would have taken to produce if it wasn’t AI and it would have been $2-$5 million dollars But with AI it was only $2,000….. Crazy

Wall Street Apes

49,691 views • 3 months ago

I've been working on this for months. Locked myself in a room. Went monk mode. The long hours. Sleepless nights. Years of expertise and extreme focus poured into building the best AI course possible. This will be my best work yet. Next Monday, on the 25th, the doors open. And a lot of people ask me if Cartoon Hero is for them. Let me explain… Cartoon Hero 2.0 is: 1) For total beginners ready to learn AI animation from scratch. 2) For people who want to build AI agencies and get freelance gigs. 3) For content creators who want to grow an audience and level up their creativity. 4) For creators ready to build their own shows and IP. 5) For anyone who's been waiting for the right moment. If you've been on the fence... If you've been watching from the sidelines... If you've been waiting for a sign... This is it. Next week. Be ready.

I've been working on this for months. Locked myself in a room. Went monk mode. The long hours. Sleepless nights. Years of expertise and extreme focus poured into building the best AI course possible. This will be my best work yet. Next Monday, on the 25th, the doors open. And a lot of people ask me if Cartoon Hero is for them. Let me explain… Cartoon Hero 2.0 is: 1) For total beginners ready to learn AI animation from scratch. 2) For people who want to build AI agencies and get freelance gigs. 3) For content creators who want to grow an audience and level up their creativity. 4) For creators ready to build their own shows and IP. 5) For anyone who's been waiting for the right moment. If you've been on the fence... If you've been watching from the sidelines... If you've been waiting for a sign... This is it. Next week. Be ready.

Framer 🇱🇹

53,142 views • 10 months ago