Joe_Carlsmith

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Senior research analyst at Open Philanthropy. Doctorate in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Opinions my own.

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC

225 points

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Predictable updating about AI risk

Joe_Carlsmith8 May 2023 22:05 UTC

130 points

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Seeing more whole

Joe_Carlsmith17 Feb 2023 5:14 UTC

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Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?

Joe_Carlsmith16 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC

118 points

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Superforecasting the premises in “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

Joe_Carlsmith18 Oct 2023 20:33 UTC

114 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermism

Joe_Carlsmith22 Mar 2021 8:21 UTC

102 points

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Video and Transcript of Presentation on Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI

Joe_Carlsmith8 May 2022 3:52 UTC

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Against neutrality about creating happy lives

Joe_Carlsmith15 Mar 2021 1:54 UTC

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On infinite ethics

Joe_Carlsmith31 Jan 2022 7:17 UTC

94 points

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Gentleness and the artificial Other

Joe_Carlsmith2 Jan 2024 18:21 UTC

89 points

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Draft report on existential risk from power-seeking AI

Joe_Carlsmith28 Apr 2021 21:41 UTC

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Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC

81 points

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On the limits of idealized values

Joe_Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:00 UTC

80 points

9 comments36 min readEA link

Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”

Joe_Carlsmith21 Dec 2020 19:35 UTC

79 points

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New report: “Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?”

Joe_Carlsmith15 Nov 2023 17:16 UTC

71 points

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Reviews of “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”

Joe_Carlsmith16 Dec 2021 20:50 UTC

71 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

On the abolition of man

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2024 18:17 UTC

71 points

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A Stranger Priority? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effective Altruism (my dissertation)

Joe_Carlsmith21 Feb 2023 17:16 UTC

64 points

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Deep atheism and AI risk

Joe_Carlsmith4 Jan 2024 18:58 UTC

64 points

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On green

Joe_Carlsmith21 Mar 2024 17:38 UTC

61 points

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