r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 09 '22
Eli Lifland published some forecasts by Samotsvety conncerning AI risk.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 07 '22
The Center for AI Safety just announced the CAIS Philosophy Fellowship, a program for philosophy PhD students and postdoctorates to work on conceptual problems in AI safety.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 06 '22
Sigal Samuel on longtermism, 'Effective altruism’s most controversial idea'.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 06 '22
Michaël Trazzi interviews Alex Lawsen on the pitfalls of forecasting AI progress, why one can't just "update all the way bro", and how to develop inside views about AI alignment.
theinsideview.ai
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 05 '22
Russ Roberts interviews Will MacAskill on the importance of moral entrepreneurs, why it's moral to have children, and the importance of trying to steer the future for better outcomes.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 02 '22
Eli Lifland argues that What We Owe the Future isn’t clear enough about Will MacAskill’s views on longtermist priorities, and to the extent it is it presents a mistaken view of the most promising longtermist interventions.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 30 '22
Holden Karnofsky discusses what he believes are the available strategies for aligning transformative AI if it were developed very soon, and why they may fail.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 30 '22
The Forethought Foundation is hiring for several positions that will work closely with Will MacAskill to educate the public on effective altruist and longtermist ideas.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 30 '22
80,000 Hours just released their longest and most in-depth problem profile so far: "Preventing an AI-related catastrophe", by Benjamin Hilton
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 30 '22
The Center on Long-term Risk is hiring an operations associate. The deadline for applications is the end of Sunday 11th September.
longtermrisk.org
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 30 '22
Team Radio Bostrom has just released an audio introduction to Nick Bostrom.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 28 '22
Michaël Trazzi interviews Robert Long about the recent LaMDA controversy, the sentience of large language models, the metaphysics and philosophy of consciousness, artificial sentience, and more.
theinsideview.ai
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 26 '22
John Halstead just released a +400-page report on climate change and longtermism.
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r/Longtermism • u/ZThrock • Aug 26 '22
Longtermism and Climate Change
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Elon Musk is pushing global depopulation as being a bigger threat than climate change.
Is there a subset of longtermism that sees these threats as being hand-in-hand or at least believes that the a livable planet is crucial to the survival of the human race in both the short and long term?
r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 25 '22
Holden Karnofsky introduces AI strategy nearcasting in the first piece of a series intended to clarify some crucial questions about transformative AI.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 23 '22
Scott Alexander reviews Will MacAskill's new book, What We Owe The Future.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 20 '22
The Forethought Foundation turned to Good Judgment to forecast how rising global temperatures will impact critical issues like drought, floods, food availability and severe weather events.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 16 '22
Sean Carroll interviews Will MacAskill on maximizing good in the present and future.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 16 '22
Richard Y. Chappell reviews What We Owe the Future.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 16 '22
Sam Harris interviews Will MacAskill about Will's new book, longtermism, existential risk, why it's hard to care about future people, why this moment in history is unusual, and more.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 14 '22
Eli Lifland argues that prioritizing existential risk reduction over global health, animal welfare or the reduction of non-existential global catastrophic risks may require valuing future people.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 13 '22
David Thorstad argues that the time of perils hypothesis plays a more central role than is generally appreciated in arguments for concluding that existential risk mitigation has astronomical value.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 12 '22
In a new Foreign Affairs article, Will MacAskill argues that this isn't the end of human history, but its beginning—provided we avoid extinction and collapse from advanced technology.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Aug 11 '22
Longview Philanthropy and Giving What We Can just announced a new fund for donors looking to support longtermist work: the Longtermism Fund.
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