As a layman: first and foremost correlation that pops in my mind is high reserves ~ responsible spendings. A charity so rich it is dumping money onto buying castles won't get this negative badge, neither will one that isn't buying castles but still is set on course to let go their employees the moment the funding slows down.

"everyone but cis men" is a pretty vile policy

I see it's indeed page 83 in the document on arxiv; it was 82 in the pdf on OpenAI website

Ok, I should have been clear in the beginning - what struck me was that the first example was essentially answering the question on doing great harm with minimum spendings - a really wicked "evil EA", I would say. I found it somewhat ironic.

Scroll down to page 82. No spoilers.

Also, I've noticed that MacAskill's book in bibliography - but just as a general reference I would say. Haven't spotted any other major philosophical works.

While I agree that treating extreme pain is definitely in line with NU, a person struggling with major depression, I believe, usually is quite dubious about their efficacy and potential to achieve such goals. You can't work on ending factory farming if you can't even get out of bed, plainly speaking.

Hi Geoffrey - I've found your work very interesting and hence I respect your authority, but at the same time I can't fully agree. For me, reading Perry felt honestly great, that someone perhaps could hold similar views that I hold, that someone would actually agree with me on certain things, that I was not all alone in the world. And in the end - both Perry and me lead a fairly happy life, I think. No one would arrive at her or Benatar's writings accidentally - and if they did, they wouldn't find them appealing.

But that was a sidenote. My major arguement is: I don't deny that most people are net happy. I just think that the price of those suffering is a really high one to pay - one unworthy paying.

I honestly don't feel I'm anywhere near competent to evaluate how good anyone is as a director of some institute.

I've never seriously entertained the idea that EA is like a sect - until now. This is really uncanny.