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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
307
Announcing the first issue of Asterisk
Clara Collier
29d
47
290
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
262
Introducing Asterisk
Clara Collier
6mo
33
258
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32
245
Messy personal stuff that affected my cause prioritization (or: how I started to care about AI safety)
Julia_Wise
7mo
14
239
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
239
Longtermist EA needs more Phase 2 work
Owen Cotton-Barratt
8mo
36
202
Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change
CarlShulman
3y
17
200
Reality is often underpowered
Gregory Lewis
3y
17
187
Comparing top forecasters and domain experts
Gavin
9mo
39
182
Why I am probably not a longtermist
Denise_Melchin
1y
48
181
How accurate are Open Phil's predictions?
Javier Prieto
6mo
18
170
Samotsvety Nuclear Risk Forecasts — March 2022
NunoSempere
9mo
55
406
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
253
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
209
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
197
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
166
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
164
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
140
Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.
deanspears
1y
16
134
Integrity for consequentialists
Paul_Christiano
6y
19
134
Reasoning Transparency
Lizka
2mo
8
131
Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism
richard_ngo
1y
19
128
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
125
Doubts about Track Record Arguments for Utilitarianism
Erich_Grunewald
10mo
16
121
Common-sense cases where "hypothetical future people" matter
levin
4mo
21
120
Person-affecting intuitions can often be money pumped
Rohin Shah
5mo
72