Charlie Harrison

Karma: 518

3rd PPE student at UCL and former President of the EA Society there. I was an ERA Fellow in 2023 & researched historical precedents for AI advocacy.

Are People Happier Than Before? I Tested for “Rescaling” & Found Little Evidence

Charlie HarrisonApr 15, 2025, 5:47 PM

63 points

23 comments4 min readEA link

Are New Ideas in AI Getting Harder to Find?

Charlie HarrisonDec 10, 2024, 12:52 PM

39 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Against a Happiness Ceiling: Replicating Killingsworth & Kahneman (2022)

Charlie HarrisonMay 28, 2024, 4:28 PM

169 points

14 comments5 min readEA link

Reflections on The Buddhist and the Ethicist

Charlie HarrisonMar 21, 2024, 5:21 PM

23 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Some thoughts from a University AI Debate

Charlie HarrisonMar 20, 2024, 5:03 PM

25 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

‘Surveillance Capitalism’ & AI Governance: Slippery Business Models, Securitisation, and Self-Regulation

Charlie HarrisonFeb 29, 2024, 3:47 PM

19 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

Efficacy of AI Activism: Have We Ever Said No?

Charlie HarrisonOct 27, 2023, 4:52 PM

78 points

25 comments20 min readEA link

Go Mobilize? Lessons from GM Protests for Pausing AI

Charlie HarrisonOct 24, 2023, 3:01 PM

48 points

11 comments31 min readEA link

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