Thanks for an excellent summary of the literature, Hauke! This interview we did with Lant in 2017 touches on some of these ideas. We don’t go as deep but I think Lant makes some insightful points about the intellectual history of the debate and I found it interesting to hear him think out loud. I recommend skipping to around min 20. https://harvardeapodcast.com/2019/09/24/the-turing-test-9-lant-pritchett/amp/
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Wrong by Induction
The Turing Test
How much attention does climate change warrant? A Conversation with Climate Scientist and Energy Technology and Public Policy Expert David Keith
Interview with Nir Eyal on Population-Level Bioethics and Non-Utilitarian Effective Altruism
From Critique of Pure Reason (h/t Daniel Filan, h/t Bryan Caplan) : http://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/07/kant_on_betting.html
Hey Seth,
Are you coordinating with FLI and FHI to have some division of labor? What would you identify GCRI’s main comparative advantage?
Best, Ales
EA Week at Harvard
Hi Geuss, thanks for sharing this, we (Harvard EA) will try to find out more about it.
“Do-bester” might have the inverse problem.
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.
Technical question: can Harvard EA cross-post articles from our website? We mostly do interviews with people in academia, examples here: http://harvardea.org/blog/
This is an excellent review, thanks! Really like (a) the visual metaphors in bullet points and (b) the critical commentary with updates on replication. As someone who’s only skimmed the Righteous Mind (didn’t feel worth reading after Moral Tribes), I got a really good picture of the core concepts from this review (which I typically don’t—it’s really hard to efficiently compress the whole book). Thanks a lot :)
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 :)
Thanks :) The idea behind the Ideological Turing Test is (a) to put epistemic rationality into the spotlight (b) to see how good a model the guests have of the debate and how well they considered the other side, which should help you think about how seriously you should take their claims (c) we think it’s kind of fun :)
Thanks! We’ve been quite successful/lucky getting speakers. We’re going to have another talk by Elie tonight. Later in the semester, we’ll have George Church and Steven Pinker.
As for FLI, the main thing now is x-risk publicity (ie articles, editing wikipedia to replace sci-fi with science, etc.), project prioritization, conferences and panel discussions for academics and people working in AI. All of those are going really well, much faster than expected.
Yes, forgot to add GiveWell website, quite important in my early days. Especially their post on flow-through effects relieved some of my concerns that EA mental models may be too narrow.
Thanks for the suggestion! Sounds like a fun topic, will definitely think of potential guests when we get back to recording.
Thanks so much Evan, Harvard EA will greatly appreciate that. I’ve been planning on doing something like that for our semi-involved members but never got around to actually doing that.
Sorry for the double-post, figured it would be better to sign up with my real name
Hi, I’m Ales, a second-year student at Harvard College and a prospective economics major interested in too many things.
I’m currently one of the co-presidents of Harvard College Effective Altruism [1], in which position I succeeded Ben Kuhn. We are currently working on making HCEA an established organization and it seems like we’re getting near the critical mass of dedicated people to work on some really great projects. We’re also helping to found a group at MIT and Tufts, and our organizers volunteer for the Future of Life Institute.
[1] http://harvardea.org/
[2] http://thefutureoflife.org/