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If any groups are up for organizing it, I would love the chance to attend a protest at the a16z offices.
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26jacob_drori
I mean sure, but a protest should have a clear message
6Dean Valentine
I apologize, I was just joking.
Personally I would like to protest their influence over the U.S. government and AI policy specifically. I think that's something a lot of people find immediately sympathetic, even people with different views on AI X-risk than us. It's also what I'm angry about right now in this moment.
Are you thinking about Trump 2.0's quasi-ideological enmity towards Anthropic? Do you think a16z is the epicenter of it? I would have said they were allied with Sacks and to some extent Musk in this, but would you say they are the actual HQ and braintrust and financier of accelerationist / "techno-optimist" opposition to: Anthropic, concern about extinction risks, EA-connected AI safety, and so forth?
(btw I should probably include Thiel as part of this coalition, even though Palantir was apparently using Claude - thus Vance told Europe last year that AI could never take over from humanity, Thiel has his own biblical (!) apologetics for accelerationism, and so on)