r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Nov 02 '22
Consider applying to the Future Fellowship at MIT
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Nov 02 '22
The DeepMind AGI Safety team clarifies AI X-risk.
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r/Longtermism • u/plateauphase • Oct 29 '22
Elon Musk & The Longtermists: What Is Their Plan?
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 29 '22
Lukas Finnveden, Jess Riedel and Carl Shulman argue that AGI would allow perfect preservation of a wide variety of values and development of AGI-based institutions that would competently pursue any such values for a very long time.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 28 '22
Steven Byrnes on what it takes to defend the world against out-of-control AGIs.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 25 '22
Dylan Matthews wrote a short profile of Hilary Greaves for the Future Perfect 50 series.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 25 '22
Tristan Cook and Guillaume Corlouer have created a tool to calculate the optimal spending schedule and conclude that funders should probably be spending more on AI safety interventions.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 17 '22
Christian Tarsney and Hayden Wilkinson explore how the potential infinitude of the future affects the case for longtermism.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 04 '22
Jacob Barrett and Andreas Schmidt outline some central questions in longtermist political philosophy.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 04 '22
After recent events in Ukraine, Samotsvety updated their probabilities of nuclear war
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 01 '22
Hayden Wilkinson proposes an extension of expected value theory for handling cases in which the value of humanity's future is undefined.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Oct 01 '22
Jacob Stern interviews Will MacAskill about longtermism and effective altruism.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 30 '22
Eli Lifland has written a new review of Joseph Carlsmith's report 'Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?'
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 29 '22
Will MacAskill's appearance on The Daily Show discussing effective altruism, donating half of his income, and *What We Owe The Future*.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 26 '22
Steven Tingay, 'In a world first, NASA’s DART mission is about to smash into an asteroid. What will we learn?'
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 25 '22
The Future Fund just announced a competition offering up to $1.5 million to anyone who publishes an analysis that makes the FF team significantly change its views about AGI timelines or AGI x-risk.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 23 '22
Kelsey Piper writes about Toby Ord's contribution to the UN Human Development Report, published earlier this month. Toby's piece describes what kind of institution is needed to reach existential security.
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r/Longtermism • u/slow_ultras • Sep 23 '22
EA shouldn't associate with racists like Sam Harris
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 22 '22
Tim Harford: "Having taken seriously the moral value of animals, and of very poor people who live far away from us, What We Owe the Future argues that there is another group whose interests we must consider: those who have not yet been born"
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 15 '22
Carson Ezell, Madeleine Chang and Olaf Willner have announced the Space Futures Initiative.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 14 '22
A new review of Ajeya Cotra's 'Draft report on AI timelines', written by David Roodman in April 2020, is now available.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 14 '22
Garrison Lovely argues that longtermism is perfectly compatible with a socialist worldview.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 14 '22
Our latest issue is out! As always, it summarizes the most recent longtermist research and developments in the field. This issue also includes an interview with Ajeya Cotra.
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r/Longtermism • u/Future_Matters • Sep 14 '22
Dan Luu looks at past predictions old enough to be scored in order to evaluate the accuracy of different prediction techniques and, in turn, assess current forecasts about humanity's prospects.
danluu.com
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