Executive summary: The post introduces a booklet with a reading list on altruism through self-risking, aimed at changing culture, politics, and social environments.
Key points:
The booklet is called The Cross and contains commentary and a reading list on altruism through self-risking.
The concept of “the cross” refers to pursuing altruistic goals even when there is personal risk, as Jesus did according to Christian teaching.
The reading list focuses on examples of people who took risky or unpopular stands to create social change.
This could inform work on improving culture, politics, and social environments to enable more altruism, including for AI safety.
The booklet uses mainstream sources for easier translation and to convey key examples of self-risking altruism.
Parallel concepts are “self-extinguishing” and “self-re-engineering” to reduce ego and natural preferences.
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Executive summary: The post introduces a booklet with a reading list on altruism through self-risking, aimed at changing culture, politics, and social environments.
Key points:
The booklet is called The Cross and contains commentary and a reading list on altruism through self-risking.
The concept of “the cross” refers to pursuing altruistic goals even when there is personal risk, as Jesus did according to Christian teaching.
The reading list focuses on examples of people who took risky or unpopular stands to create social change.
This could inform work on improving culture, politics, and social environments to enable more altruism, including for AI safety.
The booklet uses mainstream sources for easier translation and to convey key examples of self-risking altruism.
Parallel concepts are “self-extinguishing” and “self-re-engineering” to reduce ego and natural preferences.
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