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Longtermism
Long-term future
Criticism of effective altruist causes
Criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies
AI skepticism
Flourishing futures
Anthropics
Speeding up development
Extraterrestrial intelligence
Trajectory change
Immigration reform
Transhumanism
202 posts
Cause prioritization
Global priorities research
ITN framework
Global Priorities Institute
Neglectedness
Diminishing returns
Tractability
Room for more funding
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Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
6d
5
75
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
118
290
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
75
Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?
Maxwell Tabarrok
2mo
23
52
A Critique of Longtermism by Popular YouTube Science Channel, Sabine Hossenfelder: "Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan?"
Ram Aditya
1mo
21
27
Longtermism and Computational Complexity
David Kinney
3mo
46
25
A Pin and a Balloon: Anthropic Fragility Increases Chances of Runaway Global Warming
turchin
3mo
25
32
A proposed hierarchy of longtermist concepts
Arepo
1mo
13
59
Longtermist terminology has biasing assumptions
Arepo
1mo
13
53
How to find *reliable* ways to improve the future?
Sjlver
4mo
35
79
Optimism, AI risk, and EA blind spots
Justis
2mo
22
14
The Credibility of Apocalyptic Claims: A Critique of Techno-Futurism within Existential Risk
Ember
4mo
35
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Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus
Prometheus
1mo
13
41
Against longtermism
Brian Lui
4mo
32
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Paper summary: Do not go gentle: why the Asymmetry does not support anti-natalism (Andreas Mogensen)
Global Priorities Institute
13h
2
-21
Why complexity science is important for effective altruism
Nikiz
5d
6
9
Can an evidentialist be risk-averse? (Hayden Wilkinson)
Global Priorities Institute
5d
4
122
We can do better than argmax
Jan_Kulveit
2mo
37
87
Mini summaries of GPI papers
Jack Malde
1mo
16
152
Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils
David Thorstad
4mo
51
107
Assessing the case for population growth as a priority
Charlotte
1mo
7
111
Interesting vs. Important Work - A Place EA is Prioritizing Poorly
Davidmanheim
4mo
54
16
Civilizational vulnerability types: a summary
Will Aldred
9d
2
32
Does biodiversity loss warrant being it’s own cause area?
emwalz
5mo
40
64
Why scale is overrated: The case for increasing EA policy efforts in smaller countries
Philip Hall Andersen
1y
11
96
The discount rate is not zero
Thomaaas
3mo
24
7
A case for the adoption of Phage therapy in Africa
emmannaemeka
13d
2
60
Requesting feedback: proposal for a new nonprofit with potential to become highly effective
Marshall
3mo
9