JustinShovelain

Karma: 247

I am the co founder of and researcher at the quantitative long term strategy organization Convergence (see here for our growing list of publications). Over the last decade I have worked with MIRI, CFAR, EA Global, and Founders Fund, and done work in EA strategy, fundraising, networking, teaching, cognitive enhancement, and AI safety research. I have a MS degree in computer science and BS degrees in computer science, mathematics, and physics.

Improving the future by influencing actors’ benevolence, intelligence, and power

MichaelA🔸Jul 20, 2020, 10:00 AM

77 points

15 comments17 min readEA link

Causal diagrams of the paths to existential catastrophe

MichaelA🔸Mar 1, 2020, 2:08 PM

51 points

11 comments13 min readEA link

State Space of X-Risk Trajectories

David_KristofferssonFeb 6, 2020, 1:37 PM

24 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Four components of strategy research

MichaelA🔸Jan 30, 2020, 7:08 PM

26 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

Safety regulators: A tool for mitigating technological risk

JustinShovelainJan 21, 2020, 1:09 PM

10 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

The ‘sprinting between oases’ strategy

JustinShovelainJan 16, 2020, 4:10 PM

10 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Moloch and the Pareto optimal frontier

JustinShovelainJan 14, 2020, 4:33 PM

27 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it

SiebeRozendalJun 20, 2019, 8:18 PM

70 points

8 comments20 min readEA link

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