E29: Effective Altruism and Longtermism

Statistically Insignificant by Tess O'Brien

Episode notes

We dive deep into the bat shit insane proposed predictions of these ideologies and why they don't understand what would be involved in the calculations they are trying to do.

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References

Hoel, E. (2022). 'Why I am not an effective altruist', The Intrinsic Perspective, https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/why-i-am-not-an-effective-altruist

Cremer, C. Z., & Kemp, L. (2021). Democratising Risk: In Search of a Methodology to Study Existential Risk. arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.11214.

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