Wow thank you! I’m sending this to someone I know. Appreciate it!
Something that would make this post more helpful for me: If you had to pick 1-3 resources for someone to start reading about cluelessness (say: someone who is vaguely worried about cluelessness but hasn’t invested deeply in building their own models yet / could use a refresher), where would you choose?
(No pressure of course, this is already very helpful :) )
I guess I recommend reading this overview (or this longer one?) and/or DiGiovanni’s Q&A and then checking the references in these that discuss whatever they think their own crux is.
Wow thank you! I’m sending this to someone I know. Appreciate it!
Something that would make this post more helpful for me: If you had to pick 1-3 resources for someone to start reading about cluelessness (say: someone who is vaguely worried about cluelessness but hasn’t invested deeply in building their own models yet / could use a refresher), where would you choose?
(No pressure of course, this is already very helpful :) )
Thank you :)
I guess I recommend reading this overview (or this longer one?) and/or DiGiovanni’s Q&A and then checking the references in these that discuss whatever they think their own crux is.
This will likely point them to some parts of DiGiovanni’s (2025) sequence The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance, which is the best and most comprehensive resource (in terms of arguments) on the topic imo.
Were I to pick only one that’s at once rigorous and accessible, I’d say the first post in Anthony DiGiovanni’s sequence on Unawereness (20m read officially, but has some references and charts, so I’d say it probably takes 10 minutes to read it: 1. The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance: Introduction