Reflective altruism
I’m a philosopher at Vanderbilt University (views my own). The purpose of this blog is to use academic research to drive positive change within and around the effective altruism movement. Discussions are long-form and structured around thematic series. Subscribe below for biweekly posts.
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Instrumental convergence and power-seeking (Part 2: Benson-Tilsen and Soares)
A leading power-seeking theorem due to Benson-Tilsen and Soares does not ground the needed form of instrumental convergence
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Human biodiversity (Part 8: EA Forum)
This post discusses the impact of human biodiversity theory (HBD) on the EA Forum
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Getting it right (Part 2: Global health)
Effective altruists continue to be leaders in providing evidence-based global health solutions.
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Instrumental convergence and power-seeking (Part 1: Introduction)
Power-seeking theorems aim to formally demonstrate that artificial agents are likely to seek power in problematic ways. I argue that leading power-seeking theorems do not succeed.
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The scope of longtermism (Part 5: A case study – Existential risk)
Many longtermists think that existential risk mitigation escapes the scope-limiting factors. To what extent is this true?
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Human Biodiversity (Part 7: LessWrong)
This post discusses the impact of human biodiversity theory (HBD) on LessWrong
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Getting it right (Part 1: Altruism)
Effective altruists often show admirable degrees of altruism.
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Papers I learned from (Part 5: Language agents reduce the risk of existential catastrophe)
Simon Goldstein and Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini argue that language agents reduce the risk of existential catastrophe from artificial intelligence.
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The scope of longtermism (Part 4: Unawareness)
Today’s post discusses the final scope-limiting factor: unawareness of relevant acts, states and outcomes
