The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy Quotes

“(...) Slate Star Codex, the Rationalist Scott Alexander’s blog, earlier in the conversation. ‘Scott has a very good blog post listing all the AI researchers who think it’s a serious problem,’ Ord told me, which indeed he does: it’s called ‘AI researchers on AI risk’ and was published in 2015. ‘It’s a very long list, including, for example, [DeepMind co-founders] Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. The world’s biggest AI company is run by people who think this is a real concern.”
― Tom Chivers, The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

“OpenPhil and GiveWell are two organisations run on Rationalist lines that look at the most effective ways to donate money to charity. They’re central to something called the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, which is strongly linked to the Rationalist community.”
― Tom Chivers, The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future