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The Saturation View: responses to the comments

A couple of weeks ago, I published a draft of a new population axiology that I’ve been working on with Christian Tarsney.

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300,000 lives, 100 million hens, and a world still to save

EA is back.

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Merry Christmas!

Give a gift to the world

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A charity match for Giving Season

To kick off Giving Season, I’m matching donations up to £100,000 (details below), across 10 charities and 6 cause areas.

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Effective altruism in the age of AGI

Three futures for the effective altruism movement.

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A short review of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”

I thought that “If anyone builds it, everyone dies”, by Eliezer Yudkwosky and Nate Soares, was disappointing, relying on weak arguments around the evolution analogy, an implicit assumption of a future discontinuity in AI progress, conflation of “misalignment” with “catastrophic misalignment”.

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Coming soon

This is Both/And.

TED Talks

What are the most important moral problems of our time?

Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral philosopher Will MacAskill provides a framework for answering this question based on the philosophy of "effective altruism" -- and shares ideas for taking on three pressing global issues.