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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 Fis­sion Prob­lem for Per­son-Affect­ing Views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 7, 2024, 3:01 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Towards shut­down­able agents via stochas­tic choice

EJTJul 8, 2024, 10:14 AM
26 points
1 commentEA link
(arxiv.org)

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 4, 2024, 4:30 PM
13 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

My favourite ar­gu­ments against per­son-af­fect­ing views

EJTApr 2, 2024, 10:57 AM
84 points
36 comments17 min readEA link

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

EJTFeb 28, 2024, 2:30 PM
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The Shut­down Prob­lem: In­com­plete Prefer­ences as a Solution

EJTFeb 23, 2024, 4:01 PM
26 points
0 commentsEA link

The Shut­down Prob­lem: An AI Eng­ineer­ing Puz­zle for De­ci­sion Theorists

EJTOct 23, 2023, 3:36 PM
35 points
1 comment38 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

The price is right

EJTOct 16, 2023, 4:34 PM
27 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(openairopensea.substack.com)

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

EJTMar 19, 2023, 4:50 PM
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

There are no co­her­ence theorems

EJTFeb 20, 2023, 9:52 PM
107 points
49 comments19 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities InstituteOct 11, 2022, 11:29 AM
39 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 29, 2022, 3:52 PM
43 points
27 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

EJTSep 14, 2021, 8:00 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of a Satis­fac­tory Pop­u­la­tion Prospect Axiology

EJTMay 12, 2021, 3:35 PM
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)