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03.22.2023
Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI (shorter version)
Building a second advanced species is playing with fire.
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02.21.2023
A Stranger Priority? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effective Altruism
My dissertation.
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02.17.2023
Seeing more whole
On looking out of your own eyes.
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02.16.2023
Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?
Who needs a system if you’re free?
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12.23.2022
On sincerity
Nearby is the country they call life.
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12.01.2022
Against meta-ethical hedonism
Can the epistemology of consciousness save moral realism and redeem experience machines? No.
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2022
10/09
Against the normative realist’s wager
09/06
Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?
08/21
Video and Transcript of Presentation on Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI
03/24
Dutch books, Cox, and Complete Class: Part 4
03/21
VNM, separability, and more: Part 3
03/18
Why it can be OK to predictably lose: Part 2
03/16
Skyscrapers and madmen: Part 1
02/18
Simulation arguments
01/30
On infinite ethics
01/17
The ignorance of normative realism bot
01/10
Morality and constrained maximization, part 2: Part 2
2021
12/21
Morality and constrained maximization, part 1: Part 1
11/28
Anthropics and the Universal Distribution
10/29
On the Universal Distribution
09/30
In defense of the presumptuous philosopher: Part 4
09/30
An aside on betting in anthropics: Part 3
09/30
Telekinesis, reference classes, and other scandals: Part 2
09/30
Learning from the fact that you exist: Part 1
08/27
Can you control the past?
07/19
In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)
06/21
On the limits of idealized values
04/19
Problems of evil
04/04
The innocent gene
03/28
The importance of how you weigh it
03/22
On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism
03/14
Against neutrality about creating happy lives
03/07
Care and demandingness
03/01
Subjectivism and moral authority
02/21
Two types of deference
02/14
Contact with reality
02/07
Killing the ants
01/31
Believing in things you cannot see
01/24
On clinging
01/18
Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia
01/10
Shouldn’t it matter to the victim?
01/03
The despair of normative realism bot
2020
12/26
A ghost
12/20
Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?)
12/12
Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”
12/06
Thoughts on being mortal
11/29
Grokking illusionism
11/22
The impact merge
11/16
Thoughts on personal identity
11/08
How core is confusion about consciousness?
11/01
To light a candle
10/24
The gestures of trees
10/17
Mistaking the plot
09/15
How much computational power does it take to match the human brain?