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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.
AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)
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Open Philanthropy has kept the lights on at MIRI and CFAR since the beginning (also now Lightcone), as well as funding lots of offshoot “AI safety” entities like Redwood Research, the MIRI/CFAR summer AI camps at Berkeley and in Europe (that one itself almost certainly split off in response to the behaving-inappropriately-with-teenagers issue), academic AI groups founded or led by MIRI alums (Berkeley Existential Risk, others), I could go on. Ajeya Cotra (not sure if she’s still there) was active on LW for a while, maybe founded a magazine with Kelsey Piper? She I think was a program manager at Open Phil and oversaw a lot of the AI-safety funding work.
RationalWiki says that Kelsey Piper helped Cotra launch her Substack blog https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kelsey_Piper There are not many Indian-American rationalists, Dwarkesh Patel and his GF come to mind and Venkatesh Rao is adjacent.