Magnus Vinding

Karma: 1,839

Working to reduce extreme suffering for all sentient beings.

Author of Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications; Reasoned Politics; & Essays on Suffering-Focused Ethics.

Co-founder (with Tobias Baumann) of the Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS).

Ebooks available for free here and here.

[Question] Is DeepSeek-R1 already better than o3 when inference costs are held constant?

Magnus VindingJan 24, 2025, 3:29 PM

33 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Point-by-point reply to Yudkowsky on UFOs

Magnus VindingDec 19, 2024, 9:24 PM

4 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

Cosmic AI safety

Magnus VindingDec 6, 2024, 10:32 PM

23 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

New eBook: Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures

Magnus VindingAug 4, 2024, 7:34 AM

27 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Silent cosmic rulers

Magnus VindingJul 15, 2024, 5:07 PM

41 points

16 comments9 min readEA link

Why UFOs matter

Magnus VindingJun 21, 2024, 10:53 AM

31 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Can we confidently dismiss the existence of near aliens? Probabilities and implications

Magnus VindingJul 25, 2023, 11:37 AM

46 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(magnusvinding.com)

Beware frictions from altruistic value differences

Magnus VindingDec 1, 2022, 6:58 PM

99 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Two contrasting models of “intelligence” and future growth

Magnus VindingNov 24, 2022, 11:54 AM

74 points

32 comments22 min readEA link

Linkpost for various recent essays on suffering-focused ethics, priorities, and more

Magnus VindingSep 28, 2022, 8:58 AM

89 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”

Magnus VindingAug 23, 2022, 9:21 AM

225 points

115 comments8 min readEA link

Research vs. non-research work to improve the world: In defense of more research and reflection [linkpost]

Magnus VindingMay 20, 2022, 4:25 PM

31 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(magnusvinding.com)

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus VindingApr 8, 2022, 7:54 AM

143 points

38 comments7 min readEA link

New Book: “Reasoned Politics” + Why I have written a book about politics

Magnus VindingMar 3, 2022, 11:31 AM

95 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

Magnus Vinding’s Quick takes

Magnus VindingSep 25, 2020, 5:25 PM

3 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

New book — “Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications”

Magnus VindingMay 31, 2020, 9:27 AM

105 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

Tips for overcoming low back pain

Magnus VindingMar 24, 2020, 4:41 PM

71 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

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