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AI Alignment
Reward misspecification and instrumental convergence
Reward misspecification and instrumental convergence
BlueDot Impact
Adversarial techniques for scalable oversight
Adversarial techniques for scalable oversight
BlueDot Impact
Agent foundations or AI governance, and careers in alignment
Agent foundations or AI governance, and careers in alignment
BlueDot Impact
AI Governance
AI, Machine Learning, and their Potentially Extreme Stakes
AI, Machine Learning, and their Potentially Extreme Stakes
BlueDot Impact
Biosecurity
Advances in biotechnology and a note on Information Hazards
Advances in biotechnology and a note on Information Hazards
BlueDot Impact
Wild Animal Welfare
Case studies of interventions in wild animal welfare - disease & parasites
Case studies of interventions in wild animal welfare - disease & parasites
EA Oxford
Case studies of interventions in wild animal welfare - population control
Case studies of interventions in wild animal welfare - population control
EA Oxford
Practicalities of intervening for wild animals
Practicalities of intervening for wild animals
EA Oxford
Alternative Proteins - Technical
Motivating the case for alternative proteins
Motivating the case for alternative proteins
BlueDot Impact
Non-meat applications of alternative proteins
Non-meat applications of alternative proteins
BlueDot Impact
What are the main technical challenges in alternative proteins?
What are the main technical challenges in alternative proteins?
BlueDot Impact
What are the social and political challenges to alternative proteins?
What are the social and political challenges to alternative proteins?
BlueDot Impact
What does the alternative protein industry currently look like, and what opportunities are there?
What does the alternative protein industry currently look like, and what opportunities are there?
BlueDot Impact
Introduction to Effective Altruism
The Effectiveness Mindset
The Effectiveness Mindset
A basic introduction to effective altruism and why it's important to prioritise when it comes to doing good
EA Oxford
Evaluating Differences in Impact
Evaluating Differences in Impact
An introduction to some tools and approaches we can use to quantify and evaluate how much good an intervention achieves
EA Oxford
Expanding Our Compassion
Expanding Our Compassion
Arguments to expand our moral consideration beyond our ordinary societal norms
EA Oxford
Longtermism
Longtermism
Introduction to the concept of longtermism and a philosophical definition
EA Oxford
Existential Risk
Existential Risk
What is an existential risk and what is the case for treating them as a moral priority?
EA Oxford
Increasing the Accuracy of our Judgements
Increasing the Accuracy of our Judgements
Why try and improve the way we reason and what are some promising approaches to doing so?
EA Oxford
Introduction to Longtermism Series
Longtermism
Longtermism
Introduction to the concept of longtermism and a philosophical definition
EA Oxford
The Human Trajectory
The Human Trajectory
Thinking about the broad picture of where humanity has been and is going
EA Oxford
Existential Risk
Existential Risk
What is an existential risk and what is the case for treating them as a moral priority?
EA Oxford
Trajectory Change
Trajectory Change
Can we predictably intervene to shape the balance of possible futures?
EA Oxford
A longtermist career
A longtermist career
Inspiration from people who are doing longtermist work
EA Oxford
Career Priorities and High Impact Opportunities Beyond Longtermism
Career Priorities and High Impact Opportunities Beyond Longtermism
EA Oxford
Why care about AI?
When will transformative AI arrive?
When will transformative AI arrive?
Forecasting when transformative AI will arrive
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Sources Deep Dive for The Most Important Century Series
Sources Deep Dive for The Most Important Century Series
A list of sources behind the blog posts in The Most Important Century Series
Moral uncertainty
Moral uncertainty
How do we approach decision making when we lack certainty in any one moral theory?
Most Important Century Series
Most Important Century Series
A series of blog posts that argue that the 21st century could be the most important century ever for humanity
Expected value of the future
Expected value of the future
Is the expected value of the future positive or negative? A crucial consideration for the value of extinction risk reduction.
Cluelessness
Cluelessness
What should we do given that we can't evaluate the vast indirect effects of our actions?
Expected value and fanaticism
Expected value and fanaticism
Is maximising expected value the right approach for trying to do the most good? How should we approach tiny probabilities of doing vast amounts of good?
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