Primed by Singer’s Famine, Affluence and Morality and Jeffrey Sachs + White Man’s Burden + Poor economics for an EA approach to development econ. Sequences, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and Nick Beckstead’s thesis were the most important in making me deeply interested in EA.
I never read Nick’s thesis. I’m curious if there are particular sections you can point to that might give me a sense of why it was influential on you? I have a vague sense that it’s primarily mathematical population ethics calculations or something, and I’m guessing I might be wrong.
Yes, I would also particularly recommend the early sections on metaethics. Later parts are also good if you actually want to pass the Ideological Turing Test against long-termism. He spends a lot of time with the person affecting view :)
Primed by Singer’s Famine, Affluence and Morality and Jeffrey Sachs + White Man’s Burden + Poor economics for an EA approach to development econ. Sequences, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and Nick Beckstead’s thesis were the most important in making me deeply interested in EA.
I never read Nick’s thesis. I’m curious if there are particular sections you can point to that might give me a sense of why it was influential on you? I have a vague sense that it’s primarily mathematical population ethics calculations or something, and I’m guessing I might be wrong.
Chapter 2 in particular is slightly broader, and motivates some general EA/consequentialist questions. There are technical bits throughout, but I enjoyed reading it. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxuYmVja3N0ZWFkfGd4OjExNDBjZTcwNjMxMzRmZGE
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Yes, I would also particularly recommend the early sections on metaethics. Later parts are also good if you actually want to pass the Ideological Turing Test against long-termism. He spends a lot of time with the person affecting view :)