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Giving now vs. later | Rational Altruist
https://rationalaltruist.com/2013/03/12/giving-now-vs-later
Adventures of a would-be do-gooder. Giving now vs. later. It has been observed that money spent helping the poor compounds over time in the same way that profit-oriented investments do (see Holden Karnofsky. Or Giving What We Can. When I support the world’s poorest people I’m not just alleviating their suffering, I’m increasing the productivity of their lives. The recipients of aid go on to contribute to the world, and their contributions compound in turn. Moreover, one can argue. Than world economic gro...
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Certificates of Impact | Rational Altruist
https://rationalaltruist.com/2014/11/15/certificates-of-impact
Adventures of a would-be do-gooder. In this post post I describe a simple institution for altruistic funding and decision-making, characterized by the creation and exchange of “certificates of impact.”. Typically an effectiveness-minded altruist would try to do as much good as possible. Instead, users of the certificates system try to collect certificates for as much good as possible. 1 Some existing challenges. Evaluating philanthropic opportunities is difficult, and most are not very good. Predicti...
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Machine intelligence and capital accumulation | Rational Altruist
https://rationalaltruist.com/2014/05/14/machine-intelligence-and-capital-accumulation
Adventures of a would-be do-gooder. Machine intelligence and capital accumulation. The distribution of wealth in the world 1000 years ago appears to have had a relatively small effect—or more precisely an unpredictable effect, whose expected value was small. On the world of today. I think there is a good chance that AI will fundamentally change this dynamic, and that the distribution of resources shortly after the arrival of human-level AI may have. A naïve model of capital accumulation. In the service of.
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Inhuman altruism: Inferential gap, or motivational gap? | nothing is mere
https://nothingismere.com/2014/11/12/inhuman-altruism-inferential-gap-or-motivational-gap
Inhuman altruism: Inferential gap, or motivational gap? Diams; November 12, 2014. Diams; 26 Comments. Eat meat because they haven’t yet been persuaded that non-human animals can experience suffering:. Vegans: If the meat eaters believed what you did about animal sentience, most of them would be vegans, and they would be horrified by their many previous murders. Your heart-wrenching videos aren’t convincing to them because they aren’t already convinced that animals can feel. I’ve argued before. Cognitive ...
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Approval-seeking | Ordinary Ideas
https://ordinaryideas.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/approval-seeking
July 21, 2014. I suggest that it would be desirable if powerful agents acted in the way we would most approve of, upon reflection. I argue that this definition can be made unusually precise, would lead to positive outcomes, and is robust to conceptual imprecision, philosophical errors, and unfavorable circumstances. I described this proposal in a previous post. What exactly is the proposal? The schema for my proposed utility function is: “The extent to which I. After an extensive process of reflection.
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My outlook | Rational Altruist
https://rationalaltruist.com/2013/06/03/my-outlook
Adventures of a would-be do-gooder. This will be a relatively short post, sketching my overall view of valuable altruistic endeavors. I suspect that contemporary choices will have a significant impact on the character of this future civilization, and therefore that this impact is a primary consideration for contemporary decisions. In descending order of plausibility, I think the most important impacts. I think the most promising interventions. At the moment are:. Work directly on existing projects for hu...
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Logic at Harvard - Logic Seminar and Colloquium
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Logic Seminar and Colloquium. And W Hugh Woodin. To be added to the mailing list, please contact logic@fas (dot harvard dot edu). For seminars and colloquia in previous years, see the archived schedules. The Logic Colloquium meets roughly once a month and involves a major figure in logic, speaking on a broad area of general interest. Unless otherwise noted, the talks meet at 2 Arrow Street in Room 420 from 4:00-6:00 pm. Spring 2016 Logic Seminar and Colloquium Schedule. The niceties of cardinal arithmetic.
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Dance dance evaluation | Meteuphoric
https://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/dance-dance-evaluation
Why do all the considerations point the same way? Why are track records unpopular? April 8, 2015. One of the best things I came across in 2014 was Dance Dance Revolution. DDR), or specifically Stepmania. A free version you can play on your computer. It is a dance game that looks basically like this. Skip the first minute) or this. If you are very good and play in arcades. 8217; is not a thought I have ever had while playing Civ IV. 8216; is a rare thought while running. And computer games are known to be...
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Year in Review – Optimal Prime
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Rationality Techniques 1 ». June 28, 2015. Sep, Oct, Nov 2014: Vietnam. A year ago, I left my job at Streak and moved to Vietnam. I felt like I needed change. Vietnam ended up being wonderful; I was really glad I travelled with my friends Richard. Looking at my journal and it really only starts up again in March, so I’m going to organize this post in terms of the to-do list. There are a couple items that don’t fit:. I started dating my wonderful pet, Lealend. Conventions. I went to DEF CON. Description: ...