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Geoffrey Miller

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Evolutionary psychology professor, author of ‘The Mating Mind’, ‘Spent’, ‘Mate’, & ‘Virtue Signaling’. B.A. Columbia; Ph.D. Stanford. My research has focused on human cognition, machine learning, mate choice, intelligence, genetics, emotions, mental health, and moral virtues. Interested in long termism, X risk, longevity, pronatalism, population ethics, AGI, China, crypto.

A moral back­lash against AI will prob­a­bly slow down AGI development

Geoffrey Miller31 May 2023 21:31 UTC
141 points
22 comments14 min readEA link

A long-ter­mist per­spec­tive on EA’s cur­rent PR crisis

Geoffrey Miller18 Nov 2022 18:49 UTC
100 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Teach­ing EA through su­per­hero thought experiments

Geoffrey Miller28 Oct 2022 17:32 UTC
88 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing about par­ent­ing as an Effec­tive Altruist

Geoffrey Miller26 Sep 2022 23:35 UTC
69 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

A Thanks­giv­ing grat­i­tude ex­er­cise for EAs

Geoffrey Miller22 Nov 2022 19:32 UTC
68 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

AI al­ign­ment with hu­mans… but with which hu­mans?

Geoffrey Miller8 Sep 2022 23:43 UTC
51 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

The re­li­gion prob­lem in AI alignment

Geoffrey Miller16 Sep 2022 1:24 UTC
51 points
28 comments11 min readEA link

‘Psy­chol­ogy of Effec­tive Altru­ism’ course syllabus

Geoffrey Miller7 Sep 2022 17:31 UTC
50 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

The her­i­ta­bil­ity of hu­man val­ues: A be­hav­ior ge­netic cri­tique of Shard Theory

Geoffrey Miller20 Oct 2022 15:53 UTC
49 points
12 comments21 min readEA link

EA’s brain-over-body bias, and the em­bod­ied value prob­lem in AI al­ign­ment

Geoffrey Miller21 Sep 2022 18:55 UTC
45 points
3 comments25 min readEA link

Up­dated ‘Psy­chol­ogy of EA’ course: read­ing, videos, and syllabus

Geoffrey Miller28 Apr 2023 20:43 UTC
42 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

Could a ‘per­ma­nent global to­tal­i­tar­ian state’ ever be per­ma­nent?

Geoffrey Miller23 Aug 2022 17:15 UTC
39 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Sugges­tions for EA wed­ding vows?

Geoffrey Miller22 Mar 2019 2:38 UTC
33 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Biomimetic al­ign­ment: Align­ment be­tween an­i­mal genes and an­i­mal brains as a model for al­ign­ment be­tween hu­mans and AI sys­tems.

Geoffrey Miller26 May 2023 21:25 UTC
31 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

‘Evolu­tion­ary de­bunk­ing ar­gu­ments’ about hu­man moral intuitions

Geoffrey Miller27 Jan 2023 23:44 UTC
29 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What new psy­chol­ogy re­search could best pro­mote AI safety & al­ign­ment re­search?

Geoffrey Miller13 Jul 2023 16:30 UTC
29 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

The het­ero­gene­ity of hu­man value types: Im­pli­ca­tions for AI alignment

Geoffrey Miller16 Sep 2022 21:21 UTC
27 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Food ethics in the newest Rick & Morty episode

Geoffrey Miller7 Nov 2023 20:47 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Like­li­hood of an anti-AI back­lash: Re­sults from a pre­limi­nary Twit­ter poll

Geoffrey Miller27 Sep 2022 22:01 UTC
27 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best ar­ti­cles/​blogs on the psy­chol­ogy of ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Geoffrey Miller16 Dec 2020 18:05 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readEA link