Tag: Harms
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Harms (Part 5: Supporting frontier AI companies)
Given their stated beliefs, effective altruists often show an unusual degree of support for frontier AI companies
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Epistemics (Part 8: Two types of decoupling)
This post distinguishes two types of decoupling: truth decoupling and harm decoupling. Truth decoupling is a fine practice. Harm decoupling is not.
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Harms (Part 4: Inequality)
Short-termist interventions often reduced global inequality. By contrast, longtermist interventions may increase inequality.
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Harms (Part 3: Delay)
Longtermists advocate delay of risk-inducing technologies. This means that the potential benefits of advanced technologies will also be delayed.
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Harms (Part 2: Surveillance)
Achieving existential risk mitigation targets may require substantial use of surveillance and preventive policing. This post looks at what might be required.
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Harms (Part 1: Distraction)
Calculations of the value of existential risk mitigation efforts should not neglect the harms done by those efforts. This post focuses on one such harm: distraction from near-term risks.