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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
286
Introducing Asterisk
Clara Collier
6mo
33
275
Announcing the first issue of Asterisk
Clara Collier
29d
47
264
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
262
Messy personal stuff that affected my cause prioritization (or: how I started to care about AI safety)
Julia_Wise
7mo
14
243
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32
234
Longtermist EA needs more Phase 2 work
Owen Cotton-Barratt
8mo
36
209
Reality is often underpowered
Gregory Lewis
3y
17
208
Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives
Ozzie Gooen
1y
57
204
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
saulius
3y
30
198
Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change
CarlShulman
3y
17
186
Why I am probably not a longtermist
Denise_Melchin
1y
48
180
Comparing top forecasters and domain experts
Gavin
9mo
39
167
Beware surprising and suspicious convergence
Gregory Lewis
6y
22
418
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
284
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
213
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
194
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
175
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
167
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
165
Altruism as a central purpose
Joey
8mo
8
146
Integrity for consequentialists
Paul_Christiano
6y
19
132
Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism
richard_ngo
1y
19
118
"Doing Good Best" isn't the EA ideal
Davidmanheim
3mo
17
115
Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology
Violet Hour
2mo
9
114
Avoiding the Repugnant Conclusion is not necessary for population ethics: new many-author collaboration.
deanspears
1y
16
111
Puzzles for Everyone
Richard Y Chappell
3mo
38
109
You Don't Need To Justify Everything
ThomasW
6mo
11