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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
310
Introducing Asterisk
Clara Collier
6mo
33
279
Messy personal stuff that affected my cause prioritization (or: how I started to care about AI safety)
Julia_Wise
7mo
14
244
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
saulius
3y
30
243
Announcing the first issue of Asterisk
Clara Collier
29d
47
238
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
229
Longtermist EA needs more Phase 2 work
Owen Cotton-Barratt
8mo
36
228
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32
218
Reality is often underpowered
Gregory Lewis
3y
17
194
Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change
CarlShulman
3y
17
190
Why I am probably not a longtermist
Denise_Melchin
1y
48
183
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Jacy
5mo
118
177
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
173
Comparing top forecasters and domain experts
Gavin
9mo
39
430
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
315
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
229
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
222
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
206
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
166
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
158
Integrity for consequentialists
Paul_Christiano
6y
19
153
New book — "Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications"
Magnus Vinding
2y
20
142
A longtermist critique of “The expected value of extinction risk reduction is positive”
antimonyanthony
1y
10
141
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
133
Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism
richard_ngo
1y
19
132
A full syllabus on longtermism
jtm
1y
13
129
You Don't Need To Justify Everything
ThomasW
6mo
11
127
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9