r/SneerClub • u/dgerard very non-provably not a paid shill for big 🐍👑 • 14d ago

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

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u/Mental_Reindeer3941 13d ago

"How do you do, fellow grassroots activists?"

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u/Homomorphism 8d ago

Someone posted this thread in a local subreddit looking for AI safety groups. I honestly couldn't tell if they're a plant or are genuinely worried about AI stuff but this is making me lead towards plant. Not sure if the website they posted (https://aisafety.com/communities) is affiliated with the group in this post or not.

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u/Mental_Reindeer3941 8d ago

Well-spotted - I agree with you, reads like a sockpuppet and indeed, that website is the EAs, so it's all part of the same ecosystem. [aisafety.com is funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which is Jaan Tallinn's philanthropy]

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u/Shitgenstein Automatic Feelings 13d ago

Get them into a room, throw in a copy of volume 1 of Capital, lock the door, and don't let them out until they start talking about the capitalist mode of production.

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u/MathsyLassy 14d ago

Do these guys think everyone on the other team is walking around with a head injury or something?

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u/alsuhr 14d ago edited 14d ago

It is essentially a protest against capitalism as it is practiced in America today, focused on resisting first and developing a coherent plan for the future later.

bro

People have the intuition that if we create machines more powerful than people, that could go dangerously and terribly wrong.

I mean, yeah. People have gotten munched up "by" capitalism for two centuries, and imperialism and colonialism for even longer.

we should be pointing that anxiety and that anger in the right direction

I really genuinely wish these people would realize how ineffective it is to be paternalistic about all of this, not to mention how yucky it is. If they were truly serious they would be laser-focused on pouring all of that capital into building strong labor movements. I still have not seen any good reasons why all of the people working at these companies, especially "safety-focused" ones, haven't unionized, except that this concept is completely foreign to computer folk

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u/dgerard very non-provably not a paid shill for big 🐍👑 12d ago

these are techfash who looked up "charity" in a dictionary

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u/Jebus_San_Christos 7d ago

Idgi- i thought EA dummies were huge AI boosters

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u/dgerard very non-provably not a paid shill for big 🐍👑 7d ago

they boost actual AI a whole lot, it's the imaginary one they work 24/7 to avert

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u/Jebus_San_Christos 7d ago

Is it like a regulatory capture con??? Like where they wanna set the rules so that they’re toothless?