硅谷正处于末世世界观盛行的时代。最新一轮 AI 毁灭论浪潮由有效利他主义推动，这一哲学在边缘徘徊多年，近期因其追随者遍布 AI 行业——从 Anthropic 到新任命的 AI 安全监管机构 METR——而闯入主流视野。EA 是一种功利主义的慈善路径，前提是为最长远的时间里最多的人做最多的好事，EA 拥护者视阻止 AI 引发的末日为拯救尽可能多人类的关键。
It's a time of apocalyptic worldviews in Silicon Valley. The latest AI doom cycle is driven by effective altruism, a philosophy that has lurked around the fringes for years but recently burst into the mainstream because its adherents are embedded across the AI industry, from Anthropic to newly appointed AI safety watchdog METR. EA is a utilitarian approach to charity premised on doing the most good for the most people over the longest time, and EA advocates see halting an AI-induced doomsday as critical to saving as many humans as possible.
但 EA 在科技巨头交织的宇宙观中，有一个重要且同样带有末世色彩的对手……
But EA has an important and equally apocalyptic rival in the crosscutting cosmologies of the tech tit …