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> most of the people training these next-gen AIs are neurodiverse

Citation needed. This is a huge claim based only on stereotype.

So true. Perhaps I'm just thinking it's my people and need to update my priors.

> most of the people training these next-gen AIs are neurodiverse and we are training the AI in our own image

Do you have any evidence to support that? It would be fascinating if the field is primarly advancing due to a unique constellation of traits contributed by individuals who, in the past, may not have collaborated so effectively.

PURELY Anecdotal. But I'll say that as of 2024 1 in 36 US children are diagnosed on the spectrum according to the CDC(!), which would mean if you met 10 AI researchers and 4 were neurodivergent you'd reasonably expect that it's a higher-than-population average representation. I'm polling from the Effective Altruist AI folks in my mind, and the number is definitely, definitely higher than 4/10.

Are there non-Effective Altruist AI folks?

I love how this might mean "non-Effective", non-"Effective Altruist" or non-"Effective Altruist AI" folks.

Yes

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