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| | Comment by Wei Dai - I passed up an invitation to invest in Anthropic in the initial round which valued it at $1B (it's now planning a round at $170B valuation), to avoid contributing to x-risk. (I didn't want to signal that starting another AI lab was a good idea from a x-safety perspective, or that I thought Anthropic's key people were likely to be careful enough about AI safety. Anthropic had invited a number of rationalist/EA people to invest, apparently to gain such implicit endorsements.) This idea/plan seems to legitimize giving founders and early investors of AGI companies extra influence on or ownership of the universe (or just extremely high financial returns, if they were to voluntarily sell some shares to the public as envisioned here), which is ...
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| | As an intended outcome of neoliberal doctrine and a natural stage of capitalist development, global financialization constructs a borderless nexus of power in which debt and austerity fuels a cultural, political and economic landscape bound to enduring structures of domination, and creates unprecedented wealth through the accumulation of suffering. ***** According to economist Richard Wolff,
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| | Introduction to Commons-Conference organized by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, held inRome, 28-29 April 2011. Alongside the initiative for a referendum on water...
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| How to shift the culture of philanthropy to one where funders understand they are part of-rather than in control of-social movements and systems-change work.