Executive summary: This blog update outlines recent and upcoming content for Reflective Altruism, which uses academic research to critically examine and improve the effective altruism movement, with particular focus on longtermism and existential risk claims.
Key points:
New 2024 series challenge key EA concepts, including critiques of the singularity hypothesis, examining harms of existential risk mitigation, and analyzing the scope of longtermism.
Author’s academic work argues that existential risk claims are often exaggerated and that longtermism’s scope may be narrower than commonly believed.
Upcoming content will include series on “Beyond longtermism,” positive aspects of EA (“Getting it right”), and critiques of AI power-seeking theorems.
Blog posting frequency decreased from weekly to biweekly to maintain quality while balancing new job commitments.
Content is delivered through multiple formats including academic papers, blog posts, talks, and podcasts to increase accessibility.
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Executive summary: This blog update outlines recent and upcoming content for Reflective Altruism, which uses academic research to critically examine and improve the effective altruism movement, with particular focus on longtermism and existential risk claims.
Key points:
New 2024 series challenge key EA concepts, including critiques of the singularity hypothesis, examining harms of existential risk mitigation, and analyzing the scope of longtermism.
Author’s academic work argues that existential risk claims are often exaggerated and that longtermism’s scope may be narrower than commonly believed.
Upcoming content will include series on “Beyond longtermism,” positive aspects of EA (“Getting it right”), and critiques of AI power-seeking theorems.
Blog posting frequency decreased from weekly to biweekly to maintain quality while balancing new job commitments.
Content is delivered through multiple formats including academic papers, blog posts, talks, and podcasts to increase accessibility.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.