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Militaries and intelligence agencies are persuaded of the strategic potential of quantum computers and sensors.

Technology companies with more positive-sum goals for materials and medicine are slowly driving forward progress.

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The only countries with anti-immigration rallies are countries that have recently started experiencing mass immigration.

I went to the imperial capitol world to hear @mmjukic speak about galactic civilization and nobody knew you

For now AI timelines still bend to human politics.

In a way Effective Altruism will now enter a philosophical and strategic crisis driven by its own success.

It has been as its founders could have hoped for. Regulation and awareness of AI risks, including existential risks are now mainstream.

Yet precisely because it is mainstream, the giving individual today likely makes very little difference deploying their personal fortune to advance AI organizations that have unlocked the vast reserves of government and Silicon Valley money.

The highest leverage giving an individual Effective Altruist can undertake is very unlikely to be in the now professionalized cause areas of the 2010s.