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Global Pri­ori­ties Institute

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The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford whose aim is to conduct foundational research that informs the decision-making of individuals and institutions seeking to do as much good as possible. It is directed by Eva Vivalt.

GPI was established in January 2018 with a seed grant of £2 million from Open Philanthropy and a commitment of another £2 million from two private philanthropists.[1] Currently, GPI’s research focuses on two main areas: longtermism and general issues in cause prioritization.

Further reading

Greaves, Hilary et al. (2019) A research agenda for the Global Priorities Institute, Global Priorities Institute, February.

MacAskill, William, Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Dononvan & Andreas Mogensen (2018) Global Priorities Institute: our 2018 goals and research, Effective Altruism Global, October 27.

Wiblin, Robert & Kieran Harris (2018) Philosophy Prof Hilary Greaves on moral cluelessness, population ethics, probability within a multiverse, & harnessing the brainpower of academia to tackle the most important research questions, 80,000 Hours, October 23.

External links

Global Priorities Institute. Official website.

Global Priorities Institute. Effective Altruism Forum account.

Apply for a job.

Donate to the Global Priorities Institute.

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Cur­rent plans as the in­com­ing di­rec­tor of the Global Pri­ori­ties Institute

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Is Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Miti­ga­tion Uniquely Cost-Effec­tive? Not in Stan­dard Pop­u­la­tion Models (Gus­tav Alexan­drie and Maya Eden)

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Sum­mary: When should an effec­tive al­tru­ist donate? (William MacAskill)

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So­cial Benefi­cence (Ja­cob Bar­rett)

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Quadratic Fund­ing with In­com­plete In­for­ma­tion (Luis V. M. Fre­itas and Wilfredo L. Mal­don­ado)

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The Hinge of His­tory Hy­poth­e­sis: Re­ply to MacAskill (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

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The weight of suffer­ing (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

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19 points
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How to ne­glect the long term (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

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21 points
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23 points
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40 points
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Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe (Hilary Greaves)

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Welfare and felt du­ra­tion (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities Institute27 Nov 2023 15:40 UTC
23 points
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Will AI Avoid Ex­ploita­tion? (Adam Bales)

Global Priorities Institute13 Dec 2023 11:37 UTC
38 points
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Sum­mary: The scope of longtermism

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52 points
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Sum­mary: In Defence of Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Nicholas Kruus15 Jan 2024 14:21 UTC
26 points
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Why I’m skep­ti­cal about us­ing sub­jec­tive time ex­pe­rience to as­sign moral weights

Andreas_Mogensen22 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC
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Sum­mary: Against Anti-Fa­nat­i­cism (Chris­tian Tarsney)

Nicholas Kruus25 Jan 2024 15:04 UTC
18 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities and the Value of the Far Fu­ture (Pe­tra Koso­nen)

Nicholas Kruus17 Feb 2024 14:11 UTC
7 points
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Sum­mary: Longter­mism, Ag­gre­ga­tion, and Catas­trophic Risk (Emma J. Cur­ran)

Nicholas Kruus7 Mar 2024 14:31 UTC
17 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Train­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism (Mehmood et al.)

Nicholas Kruus20 Mar 2024 17:54 UTC
28 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How to Re­sist the Fad­ing Qualia Ar­gu­ment (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities Institute26 Mar 2024 13:30 UTC
30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
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Sum­mary: Against the Sin­gu­lar­ity Hy­poth­e­sis (David Thorstad)

Nicholas Kruus27 Mar 2024 13:48 UTC
39 points
4 comments5 min readEA link