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This is a cross-post from my blog post. Over the past decade, the effective altruism movement has become increasingly focused on “existential risk,” the idea that, this century, there’s a significant chance that humanity will go extinct, become permanently disempowered, or otherwise lose almost all of its future potential. In...
This is a crosspost from my blog post. It's meant as a bit of an introduction to an extreme-suffering focused worldview. We spend most of our lives caught up in the boring details of our everyday life - thinking about what we’ll have for lunch, how to complete that assignment...
This is a crosspost from my blog post. Longtermism is the view that we have a moral obligation to make the far future better. It is usually argued for on the basis of the following claims: 1. Future people are morally important. 2. The future will be vast in expectation....
This is a cross post from my blog post. Longtermism is typically framed as an academic philosophy or as a pet project of billionaires, but it’s worth pointing out that, in many ways, it also functions similarly to a secular religion. Although I do think that longtermism should be attacked...
This is a cross post from my blog post. Last year, I read Julia Galef’s book The Scout Mindset. It argues that many people have a “soldier mindset.” They hold strongly to a set of beliefs because these beliefs benefit them in some way. And, as a result, whenever these...
Crosspost of my blog article. In 2023, a wealth of revered AI researchers and other public figures signed a statement saying that they thought AI posed a significant risk of extinction to humanity. This is why, when I heard that Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’ book If Anyone Builds It,...