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Ben Stewart

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Hi, I’m Ben! I’m a Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy, though all views I express here are my own.

Before OP I was an independent researcher in global health and biosecurity, and a Charity Entrepreneurship incubatee. I have an MD and undergrad degrees in philosophy, international relations, and neuroscience, all from the University of Sydney.

Bio-x-AI policy: call for ideas from the Fed­er­a­tion of Amer­i­can Scientists

Ben Stewart15 Aug 2023 3:21 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Notes (and Anki) on in­fec­tious dis­ease modelling

Ben Stewart4 Aug 2023 14:28 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ben Ste­wart’s Quick takes

Ben Stewart16 Jul 2023 15:04 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Book sum­mary: ‘Why In­tel­li­gence Fails’ by Robert Jervis

Ben Stewart19 Jun 2023 16:04 UTC
39 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

NASA will re-di­rect an as­ter­oid tonight as a test for plane­tary defence (link-post)

Ben Stewart26 Sep 2022 4:58 UTC
70 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(theconversation.com)

Cause ex­plo­ra­tion prize: organophos­phate pes­ti­cides and other neurotoxicants

Ben Stewart9 Aug 2022 10:24 UTC
116 points
11 comments30 min readEA link

Tols­toy’s ‘Master and Man’: a mov­ing short story with an EA mes­sage

Ben Stewart19 Feb 2022 3:55 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.gutenberg.org)

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] Noumenon

Ben Stewart27 Oct 2021 10:50 UTC
17 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Does se­quence obfus­ca­tion pre­sent a bio-threat? Prob­a­bly not (yet)

Ben Stewart3 Sep 2021 9:33 UTC
18 points
0 comments4 min readEA link