I am a final-year political science (major) and philosophy (minor) bachelor student at the University of Zurich. I am a member of the Swiss Study Foundation and hold a conditional offer for Cambridge’s MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data and Algorithms. Discovering that there is a global community of people seeking to identify and implement the most promising ways to help others has transformed my life; I have been fascinated by this philosophy and social movement of EA since early 2020. Spending a lot of time exploring questions about suffering, the future, and uncertainty, I aspire to a career in global priorities research and AI governance, conducting research and policy entrepreneurship with a focus on avoiding worst-case scenarios.
– resume
– LinkedIn profile
– EA Hub profile
– admonymous (for giving me anonymous feedback on anything)
– Animal Welfare Library – co-created with Arvo Muñoz Morán
– selected blog post: powerful quotes I keep contemplating
I occasionally post stuff I find interesting and important on facebook and the EA Forum.
Get in touch: eleos.citrini@gmail.com :)
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my key intellectual interests (present ± a few years):
Hundreds of intellectual interests have accumulated over the last few years. Among the issues I have been most excited about in the last few years (having become varyingly hardly to somewhat or maybe moderately versed) and/or would most like to investigate in the next few years are the following, grouped into three broad clusters:
– the philosophy, politics, economics, and science of (emerging) technologies and the long-term future of Earth-originating life:
– s-risks and x-risks
– governance incl. ethics of AI, AI value alignment, and technical AI safety
– game theory of cooperation and conflict in the context of AI
– non-human sentience & sapience and moral circle expansion
– governance incl. ethics of biotechnologies, esp. transhumanism
– governance incl. ethics of outer space, esp. space colonisation
– cluelessness about and forecasting the long-term future
– the intersection of science fiction, technology, natural and social sciences, and philosophy
– futurology, progress studies, and macrostrategy
– longtermism(s) in theory and practice
– the philosophy, politics, economics, and science of belief formation, identity, and decision-making:
– decision theory and game theory
– decision-theoretic fanaticism, risk aversion, and bounded rationality
– formal epistemology and Bayesianism
– social epistemology, communication, and cognitive biases
– institutional decision-making, international relations, and global governance
– incentive structures, collective action problems, and complexity science
– egoism & altruism and dark tetrad traits, esp. re leadership
– the intersection of evolutionary psychology, moral psychology, and moral epistemology
– moral agency and moral patiency in humans and non-humans
– philosophy and psychology of self and human nature
– (more) topics in moral philosophy:
– ethical issues in effective altruism and global priorities research
– moral uncertainty and value theory
– animal ethics
– suffering-focused ethics
– population ethics and ethics of the future
– risk ethics
– consequentialist alternatives to utilitarianism
– scope-sensitive alternatives to consequentialism
– eudaimonia, enkrateia, and arete
– metaethics
Hey everyone, excited to be part of this! :) My name is Eleos Arete Citrini.
I was born, grew up in, currently live and also study in Zurich, Switzerland. I’ve just completed my second semester of studying political science (major) and philosophy (minor) at the University of Zurich. I currently plan to pursue a master’s in political science with a specialisation in PPE (philosophy, politics, economics) and am generally interested in interdisciplinary research on “the big questions”, especially regarding suffering, the future, and uncertainty.
The plight of badly-off humans and other animals has been a constant emotional involvement and intellectual interest of mine for many years, but only comparably recently have I embarked on my path to study how I could apply my compassion more systematically in a way that helps me to be more effective in making this world a better place. I’ve been fascinated by the philosophy of and social movement around EA since early 2020 and am excited about the profound impact EA has had on my life ever since.
Hundreds of sometimes broad, sometimes more specific intellectual interests have accumulated over the last few years. Those I’m currently most excited about (varyingly hardly to somewhat or maybe moderately versed) include, in no particular order:
effective altruism (esp. crucial considerations / viewquakes)
metaethics (and meta above that) (esp. moral epistemology)
moral (axiological and deontic) uncertainty (and meta above that)
global priorities research and axiology
population ethics, longtermism(s) / ethics of the (far) future, risk ethics, and fanaticism
suffering-focused ethics (esp. asymmetries, commensurability, and lexicality in ethics)
transhumanism and the intersection of sci-fi, technology, science, and philosophy
collective action problems and international relations
evolutionary psychology and moral psychology (esp. their intersection)
game theory and decision theory
moral circle expansion (esp. animal ethics, wild animal suffering, artificial sentience)
the philosophy, politics, and economics of emerging technologies (esp. interdisciplinary research on AGI (artificial general intelligence) value alignment)
I occasionally post stuff I find interesting and important on facebook and I have recently posted on my blog for the first time. I’m soon going to make an EA Forum post about this compilation of resources on animal ethics and helping animals.
Please feel free to reach out to me to recommend or/and ask for any resources on any topic! :)