David Mathers🔸

Karma: 6,047

Superforecaster, former philosophy PhD, Giving What We Can member since 2012. Currently trying to get into AI governance.

[Question] Is There Actually a Standard or Convincing Response to David Thorstad’s Criticisms of the Value of X-Risk Reduction and of Longtermism?

David Mathers🔸21 May 2025 11:58 UTC

117 points

21 comments2 min readEA link

Diana Fleischman, Author of Much-Discussed Forum Piece Defending Eugenics Works for a Magazine with Far-Right Links

David Mathers🔸22 Oct 2024 12:52 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(investigations.hopenothate.org.uk)

New Metaculus Space for AI and X-Risk Related Questions

David Mathers🔸6 Sep 2024 11:37 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Ritchie and Chivers on the effect of Lead Exposure on IQ

David Mathers🔸6 Jun 2024 12:28 UTC

21 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.thestudiesshowpod.com)

David Mathers’s Quick takes

David Mathers🔸31 Mar 2024 12:03 UTC

7 points

78 comments EA link

Long list of AI questions

NunoSempere6 Dec 2023 11:12 UTC

124 points

16 comments86 min readEA link

[Link Post] Interesting shallow round-up of reasons to be skeptical that transformative AI or explosive economic growth are coming soon

David Mathers🔸28 Jun 2023 19:49 UTC

30 points

8 comments17 min readEA link

(thegradient.pub)

Beware popular discussions of AI “sentience”

David Mathers🔸8 Jun 2023 8:57 UTC

42 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Governments Might Prefer Bringing Resources Back to the Solar System Rather than Space Settlement in Order to Maintain Control, Given that Governing Interstellar Settlements Looks Almost Impossible

David Mathers🔸29 May 2023 11:16 UTC

36 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

Questions about and Objections to ‘Sharing the World with Digital Minds’ (2020)

David Mathers🔸7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC

37 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Summary of ‘Sharing the World With Digital Minds’ by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom

David Mathers🔸7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC

35 points

1 comment8 min readEA link