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I’m a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Global Priorities Institute.

Previously, I was a Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety.

So far, my work has mostly been about the moral importance of future generations. Going forward, it will mostly be about AI.

You can email me at elliott.thornley@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

A non-iden­tity dilemma for per­son-af­fect­ing views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities Institute4 Apr 2024 16:30 UTC
8 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

My favourite ar­gu­ments against per­son-af­fect­ing views

EJT2 Apr 2024 10:57 UTC
77 points
32 comments17 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal-Set Views, Bio­graph­i­cal Iden­tity, and the Long Term

EJT28 Feb 2024 14:30 UTC
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The Shut­down Prob­lem: In­com­plete Prefer­ences as a Solution

EJT23 Feb 2024 16:01 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Shut­down Prob­lem: An AI Eng­ineer­ing Puz­zle for De­ci­sion Theorists

EJT23 Oct 2023 15:36 UTC
35 points
1 comment38 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The price is right

EJT16 Oct 2023 16:34 UTC
27 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(openairopensea.substack.com)

How much should gov­ern­ments pay to pre­vent catas­tro­phes? Longter­mism’s limited role

EJT19 Mar 2023 16:50 UTC
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

There are no co­her­ence theorems

EJT20 Feb 2023 21:52 UTC
104 points
49 comments19 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Chris­tian Tarsney)

Global Priorities Institute11 Oct 2022 11:29 UTC
39 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper sum­mary: The case for strong longter­mism (Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:52 UTC
43 points
27 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] [Refer­ral] Pas­cal’s Mug­ger Strikes Again

EJT14 Sep 2021 8:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of a Satis­fac­tory Pop­u­la­tion Prospect Axiology

EJT12 May 2021 15:35 UTC
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)