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Carl Shulman

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Carl Matthew Shulman (born ca. 1982) is a Canadian-American researcher. He is currently a Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute and an Advisor to Open Philanthropy. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute and Director of Careers Research at 80,000 Hours. He also worked at Clarium Capital, an investment management and hedge fund company, and at Reed Smith LLP, a global law firm. Shulman attended New York University School of Law and holds a BA in philosophy from Harvard University.

Shulman has made substantive contributions to several areas, including career choice, open borders, wild animal welfare, existential risk, decision theory, whole brain emulation, earning to give, among many others. Concepts and ideas original to him include iterated embryo selection, hedonium, donor lotteries, and others.

Shulman administers a $5 million discretionary fund held by the Centre for Effective Altruism, funded by an Open Philanthropy grant.[1]

Further reading

Muehlhauser, Luke (2011) Just the facts, ma’am!, LessWrong, December 10.

Rice, Issa (2020) Timeline of Carl Shulman publications, Timelines Wiki.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2021) Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications, 80,000 Hours, October 5.

Zabel, Claire (2016) Research advice from Carl Shulman, May 28.

External links

Reflective disequilibrium. Shulman’s blog.

Carl Shulman. Effective Altruism Forum account.

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    Open Philanthropy (2018) Centre for Effective Altruism — new discretionary fund, Open Philanthropy, March.

Carl Shul­man — En­vi­sion­ing a world im­mune to global catas­trophic biolog­i­cal risks

PabloOct 15, 2020, 1:19 PM
70 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Carl Shul­man – How mi­gra­tion liber­al­iza­tion might elimi­nate most ab­solute poverty

Tessa A 🔸May 27, 2014, 7:50 PM
9 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

[Question] What grants has Carl Shul­man’s dis­cre­tionary fund made?

Milan GriffesJul 8, 2019, 6:40 PM
56 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man – What por­tion of a boost to global GDP goes to the poor?

Tessa A 🔸Jan 24, 2014, 1:15 AM
24 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

A Long-run per­spec­tive on strate­gic cause se­lec­tion and philanthropy

CarlShulmanNov 5, 2013, 11:08 PM
29 points
29 comments7 min readEA link

#191 (Part 1) – The econ­omy and na­tional se­cu­rity af­ter AGI (Carl Shul­man on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJun 27, 2024, 7:10 PM
45 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

How much should gov­ern­ments pay to pre­vent catas­tro­phes? Longter­mism’s limited role

EJTMar 19, 2023, 4:50 PM
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing Carl Shul­man — what should I ask him?

Robert_WiblinDec 8, 2023, 4:48 PM
53 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Linkpost: Dwarkesh Pa­tel in­ter­view­ing Carl Shulman

Stefan_SchubertJun 14, 2023, 3:30 PM
110 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(podcastaddict.com)

Sav­ing lives in nor­mal times is bet­ter to im­prove the longterm fu­ture than do­ing so in catas­tro­phes?

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 20, 2024, 8:37 AM
13 points
25 comments9 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man — How are brain mass (and neu­rons) dis­tributed among hu­mans and the ma­jor farmed land an­i­mals?

Tessa A 🔸Sep 10, 2013, 11:22 PM
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_HoursOct 8, 2021, 1:43 PM
41 points
2 comments149 min readEA link

Shul­man and Yud­kowsky on AI progress

CarlShulmanDec 4, 2021, 11:37 AM
46 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

Risk-neu­tral donors should plan to make bets at the mar­gin at least as well as giga-donors in expectation

CarlShulmanDec 31, 2016, 2:19 AM
64 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

AGI and Lock-In

Lukas FinnvedenOct 29, 2022, 1:56 AM
153 points
20 comments10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Carl Shul­man on AI takeover mechanisms (& more): Part II of Dwarkesh Pa­tel in­ter­view for The Lu­nar Society

Alejandro OrtegaJul 25, 2023, 6:31 PM
28 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.dwarkeshpatel.com)

Sum­mary of ‘Shar­ing the World With Digi­tal Minds’ by Carl Shul­man and Nick Bostrom

David Mathers🔸Oct 7, 2022, 1:36 PM
35 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Donor lot­ter­ies: demon­stra­tion and FAQ

CarlShulmanDec 7, 2016, 1:07 PM
42 points
33 comments10 min readEA link

The age dis­tri­bu­tion of GiveWell recom­mended charities

CarlShulmanDec 26, 2015, 6:35 PM
13 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Some per­sonal thoughts on EA and sys­temic change

CarlShulmanSep 26, 2019, 9:40 PM
199 points
17 comments6 min readEA link