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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
264
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
11
Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
6d
5
481
"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
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Future people might not exist
Indra Gesink
20d
0
58
Longtermist terminology has biasing assumptions
Arepo
1mo
13
83
Parfit + Singer + Aliens = ?
Maxwell Tabarrok
2mo
23
58
A Critique of Longtermism by Popular YouTube Science Channel, Sabine Hossenfelder: "Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan?"
Ram Aditya
1mo
21
106
Summarizing the comments on William MacAskill's NYT opinion piece on longtermism
West
3mo
11
87
Optimism, AI risk, and EA blind spots
Justis
2mo
22
31
A proposed hierarchy of longtermist concepts
Arepo
1mo
13
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[edited] Inequality is a (small) problem for EA and economic growth
Karthik Tadepalli
4mo
28
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In Defence of Temporal Discounting in Longtermist Ethics
𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆
1mo
4
129
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
118
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The sense of a start
Gavin
2mo
0
16
Paper summary: Do not go gentle: why the Asymmetry does not support anti-natalism (Andreas Mogensen)
Global Priorities Institute
13h
2
11
Can an evidentialist be risk-averse? (Hayden Wilkinson)
Global Priorities Institute
5d
4
100
Assessing the case for population growth as a priority
Charlotte
1mo
7
24
Civilizational vulnerability types: a summary
Will Aldred
9d
2
84
Mini summaries of GPI papers
Jack Malde
1mo
16
11
A case for the adoption of Phage therapy in Africa
emmannaemeka
13d
2
111
We can do better than argmax
Jan_Kulveit
2mo
37
26
Shallow Report on Tinnitus
Joel Tan (CEARCH)
27d
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13
Should all RCTs now be Intervention X Vs. Cash Transfer?
NickLaing
18d
2
157
Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils
David Thorstad
4mo
51
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Best Global Health and Development charities in India?
Radon4049
11d
0
14
Representing Future Generations Reading List
LuisMota
23d
1
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Messy personal stuff that affected my cause prioritization (or: how I started to care about AI safety)
Julia_Wise
7mo
14
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The discount rate is not zero
Thomaaas
3mo
24