Reflective Altruism

So many people (even within the EA community) thought this was a poor book. youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7-bRFS…

Don't do this

But this is great if you haven't seen it youtube.com/watch?v=P8ijiLqf…

My University's internet filter just blocked my own blog after the Manifest post went up. Does that help to convey how seriously the world takes statements such as those made by invited guests at Manifest?

At least that! But ... what was this all about?

I spoke to the AI safety reading group about my paper "Against the singularity hypothesis" youtube.com/watch?v=2J6mtv-J…

Beyond funding, @ShakeelHashim always has good suggestions

These are the costs of platforming racists

Some sensible posts are finally rising to the top. This gives me hope

Twice in a row, Manifest? From The Guardian (source below)

This is a leading effective altruist blogger

Here, for example, is the CDF of extinction risk predictions in this century. Yes, there is nontrivial support for numbers well below 10^-5

I'm not the only one concerned about connections between longtermism and surveillance. Here is Cremer and Kemp

He seems pretty serious around 16:00 here youtube.com/watch?v=JrjjOGI6…

He's intentionally hard to pin down, but ... probably. Here's what he writes, and he uses stronger language elsewhere

On timing: Bostrom wants to do this *soon*