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Crosspost. 1 Introduction Maybe the best paper I’ve ever read is called People in Suitcases by Kacper Kowalczyk. I do not think there is anything plausible deontologists can say in reply. I thought I’d summarize the paper, and also discuss some results from related papers to show why there is...
Crosspost. I have lots of radical views about insects. I think probably most expected happiness and misery in the world is experienced by insects, and that our actions often have much more significant moral impacts on bugs than on people. But in this article, I’m not going to defend anything...
1 Introduction Crosspost of this blog post. My guess is that there will soon be an intelligence explosion. I think the world will witness extremely rapid economic and technological advancement driven by AI progress. I’d put about 60% odds on the kind of growth depicted variously in AI 2027 and...
1 Introduction Crosspost of this blog post. Unlike most books, the thesis of If Anyone Builds It Everyone Dies is the title (a parallel case is that the thesis of What We Owe The Future is “What?? We owe the future?). IABIED, by Yudkowsky and Soares (Y&S), argues that if...
Crosspost of this article. 1 Introduction The person-affecting view is the idea that we have no reason to create a person just because their life would go well. In slogan form “make people happy, not happy people.” It’s important to know if the person-affecting view is right because it has...
Crosspost. The core philosophical argument for giving is strikingly simple: charitable donations can prevent lots of death and suffering at a comparatively minor cost. For a few thousand dollars, you can save someone’s life. By taking the Giving What We Can pledge—which I have taken, and I would encourage you...
Crosspost of this blog post. I mostly believe in the possibility of an ongoing moral catastrophe because I believe in the actuality of an ongoing moral catastrophe (e.g. I think the giant animal torture facilities that produce nearly all of our meat qualify). But Evan Williams has a great paper...