Reflective altruism
I’m a philosopher at Vanderbilt University (views my own). The purpose of this blog is to use academic research to drive positive change within and around the effective altruism movement. Discussions are long-form and structured around thematic series. Subscribe below for biweekly posts.
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Deep Utopia (Part 3: Wednesday)
Wednesday’s lecture asks how humans could find meaning in the face of two redundancy threats.
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Deep Utopia (Part 2: Tuesday)
Tuesday’s lecture considers humanity’s cosmic endowment and barriers to reaching it.
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Community (Part 1: From FTX to Manifund)
Manifund has hired Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research. That may be unwise.
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Deep Utopia (Part 1: Monday)
The first lecture of Deep utopia focuses on work, income, and population.
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Revisiting the shutdown problem (Part 5: Implications)
Suppose that leading arguments for Catastrophic Shutdown Difficulty do not succeed. What follows?
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Getting it right (Part 5: Fiscal responsibility)
The past several years have seen a remarkable improvement in fiscal responsibility within the effective altruism movement.
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Revisiting the shutdown problem (Part 4: Krakovna and Kramar)
A second shutdown theorem due to Krakovna and Kramar is also unconvincing.
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Revisiting the shutdown problem (Part 3: Thornley)
A leading shutdown theorem due to Elliott Thornley needs strong unmentioned assumptions to ground shutdown-resistance.
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Revisiting the shutdown problem (Part 2: Informal arguments)
Informal arguments for Catastrophic Shutdown Difficulty include the Argument from Instrumental Convergence and the Empirical Argument.
