Learning from crisis

This series explains my part in the EA response to COVID, my reasons for switching from AI alignment work to the COVID response for a full year, and some new ideas the experience gave me.

While it is written from my (Jan’s) personal perspective, I co-wrote the text with Gavin Leech, with input from many others.

Ex­per­i­men­tal longter­mism: the­ory needs data

Hinges and crises

What we tried

How we failed

Case for emer­gency re­sponse teams

Differ­ent forms of capital