Perry E. Metzger
Just a reminder: Dario and Daniela Amodei, who started and run Anthropic, literally lived in a rationalist group house with Holden Karnofsky, who started the first formal EA organization. Daniela is now married to Karnofsky. Anthropic was started with EA money, and was scaled with money that Sam Bankman-Fried stole from his investors to fund EA projects. Anthropic is not a normal company, it is an EA front. The EA cult has started telling its members to distance themselves from EA, but that doesn’t mean you have to believe them. Anytime you see Dario, Daniela, Amanda Askell (Anthropic executive and ex wife of EA leader William MacAskill), or any of the rest pretending that they don’t know what EA is, they’re not being honest. Yes, I’m sure that all of this sounds bizarre and fantastical, but you can check it in a few minutes on your own with Google. Nothing I am saying here is particularly difficult to verify, or particularly secret. They would just prefer that you forget it. It is thus very important that you not forget it.
Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD
"It appears that Anthropic has made a communications decision to distance itself from the EA community, likely because of negative associations the EA brand has in some circles." A message to Daniela Amodei: "If you want to distance yourself from EA, do it and be honest. If you'd rather not comment, don't comment. But don't obfuscate and lie pretending you don't know about EA and downplay the movement." https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/53Gc35vDLK2u5nBxP/anthropic-is-not-being-consistently-candid-about-their
