I am a Predoctoral Research Fellow in Economics at the Global Priorities Institute. I read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Warwick, led the local EA group, co-moderated our first fellowship. Previously, I interned at the European Parliament and the Future of Life Institute working on the EU AI White Paper consultation. I learned about outer space governance during a research project with the German foreign service. I am funded by BERI to collaborate with GovAI researching the Brussels Effect of EU AI regulation.
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What is KSR?
Movies about the Robinson books: 1) Ministry for the Future and 2) Mars trilogy.
Massive US-China exchange programme
Great power conflict, AI
Fund (university) students to live in the other country in a host family: between US-China, Russia-US, China-India, potentially India-Pakistan. This is important if one thinks that personal experience make it less likely that individuals incentivise or encourage escalation, war and certain competitive dynamics.
Making Future Grantmaking More Optimal
Effective altruism
Great, thanks for writing this. I wished you had included a concise and short summary of the article in your post rather than your evaluation. This would have provided more information to people who don't read the article. I read parts of the original article.
Hi Frank, I am not sure I completely understand your questions.
Are you talking about interspecies comparisons of utility (differences)? I.e., how can we determine whether these 20 insects are happier than this one human
or (about utility differences) that giving food to 20 insects results in more additional utility than giving the food to one human?
Literature I can recommend is:
Dawkins, M.S. (1990). From an Animal's Point of View: Motivation, Fitness, and Animal Welfare. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13(1), pp.1–9.
Fleurbaey, M., and Hammond P.J. (2004). Interpersonally Comparable Utility. In: Barberà, S., Hammond, P.J., and Seidl, C. (eds) Handbook of Utility Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-7964-1_8
Budolfson, M. and Spears, D. (2020). Quantifying Animal Well-being and Overcoming the Challenges of Interspecies Comparisons. In: Bob Fischer (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Animal Ethics
Roberts, K. (1997). Objective Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility. Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 14, pp. 79–96.
There is also a forum post about the topic here by Jason Schukraft.
Or are you just generally talking about Social Choice Theory?
Happy to help if this does not yet answer your question.
(The Commission just opened its public consultation, which I encourage European NGOs, scientists, and citizens to weigh in on.)
Perhaps just to clarify the procedure. This is the Inception Impact Assessment Consultation where feedback is acquired on priorities and legislative paths. As written in the Inception Impact Assessment, another Consultation for 12 (rather than 7) weeks will be opened in the second half of 2021.
For this consultation, a good answer would take a precise stance on the different options outlined in the Inception Impact Assessment.
adding:
I also want to note that the things I have added and many others added are still ongoing. It would be naive to say that these are only moral catastrophes of the past.
A few more controversial moral catastrophes:
Yes, I agree with you that they should be different but are related, so thanks for your edits. Beckstead uses at least the QWIRC keyboard as an example for trajectory changes in his Phd as far as I remember.
Here is a Collection of Resources/Reading about (Constructing) Theories of Change - I provide a summary for all resources (except one) in the Google doc.
The overview of the collection/summary document is:
Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
"Backchaining" in Strategy - LessWrong
Michael Aird: "[[theory of change]] in Research" workshop
What is a Theory of Change?
Hivos ToC Guidelines: Theory of Change Thinking in Practice
Key Tools, Resources and Materials
Charlotte’s Main Take-aways
Other resources I did not read:
Motivation and Takeaways:
Open Questions: