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c/sneerclub · by dgerard@awful.systems · 18d

Irreplaceable.org is your new *professional* anti-AI org! oh, it's the Effective Altruists again

featuring Jeremy Ormstein of the Center for AI Safety, i.e. this is the EAs
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/irreplaceable-climate-activists-ai-backlash/688404/
archive: https://archive.ph/k0hSY

This fresh new org has a "careers" page out the gate https://irreplaceable.org/

first rule is, there is no fuckin money in this shit, and if there suddenly is it's the rationalists

I'm sure there's a Donnie Darko meme about this

edit: it's these guys from a few weeks ago. They didn't even change the URLs for the very well paid professional positions.

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lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems · 12 pts · 18d (2 replies)

Phil Aroneanu, Irreplaceable’s executive director and a co-founder of the climate organization 350.org, told me he believes that climate advocates initially floundered because they acted as policy wonks. They thought that making evidence-based arguments about the dangers of melting ice sheets and rising sea levels to receptive congresspeople would be enough to pass nationwide climate legislation. Today, Aroneanu said, movements are built not necessarily on what people think, but instead on what they feel. For climate, that meant fossil-fuel-divestment campaigns, protesting oil pipelines, and the school strikes led by Greta Thunberg. People are already “feeling the squeeze,” Aroneanu told me. “And we should be pointing that anxiety and that anger in the right direction.”

What is with this attitude of dismissing regular people's opinions as "feelings" in comparison to their own rationality? This is like those people who would really like to be anti-AI but find it more important to nitpick the water usage numbers and point out how agriculture uses so much more water anyway, in order to form a "better" opposition.

theodoraward@awful.systems · 8 pts · 17d

If all these hysterical plebs would calm down and do some freaking Bayes-theoretic thinking for once they would definitely realize that the primary concern facing modern society is letting the text prediction algorithm achieve demonic apotheosis

Architeuthis@awful.systems · 5 pts · 17d

What is with this attitude of dismissing regular people’s opinions as “feelings” in comparison to their own rationality?

It's baked into rationality that if you don't agree with the core tenets of the movement it's a sign you aren't doing logic properly being objective enough, so it follows that that's how they see most people.

Also in this specific instance they need to ignore the decades of concerted efforts by fossil fuel profiteers with more money than god to suppress the science and spread climate denialism, because kissing the ass of the 0.1% happens to be one of those core tenets.

one_old_coder@piefed.social · 6 pts · 18d (2 replies)

Effective altruism, a name I haven't heard for a long time.

impartially calculating benefits and prioritizing causes to provide the greatest good

Yeah, ignore people when they vote, don't pay taxes, and let me do whatever I want instead. I wish I could do that, but those guys are so crazy that I know it will never end well.

dgerard@awful.systems · 8 pts · 18d

oh boy are you in the right sub to hear about it

froztbyte@awful.systems · 7 pts · 18d

Effective altruism, a name I haven’t heard for a long time.

shit I'm a bit jealous! I can't wait for the fucking day I no longer have to think about these fuckers