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Christopher Clay

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I’m on an (unintended) Gap Year at the moment and will study maths at university next year. Right now I’m exploring cause prioritisation.

Previously I was focused on Nuclear War, but I no longer think it’s worth me working on, because it’s very intractable and the extinction risk is very low. I’ve also explored AI Safety (doing the AI Safety Fundamentals Course) but my coding really isn’t up to scratch at the moment.

The main thing I’m focusing on right now is cause prioritisation—I’m still quite sceptical of the theory of working on extinction risks.

Things I’ve done:

The Value of a Statis­ti­cal Life is not a good metric

Christopher Clay19 Mar 2025 9:11 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Giv­ing more has made me less generous

Christopher Clay11 Mar 2025 14:30 UTC
48 points
7 comments2 min readEA link