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  1. Oh man #BrianChristian’s #TheAlignmentProblem is treating #WilliamMacAskill and the whole EA/Longtermer cult seriously on pp 235-36. This is after opening shots with a #NickBostrom quote on p 223.

    Sigh.

    Let’s see if he ever gets to the eugenics & racism.

  2. Oh man #BrianChristian’s #TheAlignmentProblem is treating #WilliamMacAskill and the whole EA/Longtermer cult seriously on pp 235-36. This is after opening shots with a #NickBostrom quote on p 223.

    Sigh.

    Let’s see if he ever gets to the eugenics & racism.

  3. At Blackwell's book shop author event with #WilliamMacaskill of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect movement, no hard questions so far.

  4. I'm listening to #WilliamMacAskill's #WhatWeOweTheFuture. As an #AnimalRights advocate, I appreciate his inclusion of animals in the moral universe. I also find myself frustrated by the levels of presumption that seem to plague popular works of #MoralPhilosophy. Not everything he views as a conflict is intrinsically an unsolvable "paradox," and his predictions about the future are, to put it mildly, hubristic. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know. A little humility can go a long way.

  5. I'm listening to #WilliamMacAskill's #WhatWeOweTheFuture. As an #AnimalRights advocate, I appreciate his inclusion of animals in the moral universe. I also find myself frustrated by the levels of presumption that seem to plague popular works of #MoralPhilosophy. Not everything he views as a conflict is intrinsically an unsolvable "paradox," and his predictions about the future are, to put it mildly, hubristic. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know. A little humility can go a long way.

  6. Fast forward to recently, when I spotted #WilliamMacAskill's #WhatWeOweTheFuture, which is all about how we owe it to future generations to not screw up the present. It recognises that humanity can now drive itself to extinction, and tries to figure out some strategies for avoiding that.

    It seemed like it might press my armageddon fascination buttons but offer some rays of hope, and maybe suggest concrete actions.

  7. Fast forward to recently, when I spotted #WilliamMacAskill's #WhatWeOweTheFuture, which is all about how we owe it to future generations to not screw up the present. It recognises that humanity can now drive itself to extinction, and tries to figure out some strategies for avoiding that.

    It seemed like it might press my armageddon fascination buttons but offer some rays of hope, and maybe suggest concrete actions.