MichaelStJules

Karma: 12,029

Philosophy, global priorities and animal welfare research. My current specific interests include: philosophy of mind, moral weights, person-affecting views, preference-based views and subjectivism, moral uncertainty, decision theory, deep uncertainty/cluelessness and backfire risks, s-risks, and indirect effects on wild animals.

I’ve also done economic modelling for some animal welfare issues.

Solution to the two envelopes problem for moral weights

MichaelStJulesFeb 19, 2024, 12:15 AM

66 points

26 comments27 min readEA link

Types of subjective welfare

MichaelStJulesFeb 2, 2024, 9:56 AM

42 points

0 comments18 min readEA link

Increasingly vague interpersonal welfare comparisons

MichaelStJulesFeb 1, 2024, 6:12 AM

36 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Arguments for utilitarianism are impossibility arguments under unbounded prospects

MichaelStJulesOct 7, 2023, 9:09 PM

39 points

48 comments1 min readEA link

Malaria bednet and medicine overlap

MichaelStJulesSep 5, 2023, 11:55 PM

24 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?

Bob FischerDec 5, 2022, 11:56 AM

92 points

12 comments21 min readEA link

Desire theories of welfare and nonhuman animals

MichaelStJulesJul 16, 2022, 6:52 PM

20 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Consciousness, counterfactual robustness and absurdity

MichaelStJulesApr 12, 2022, 9:19 AM

14 points

9 comments3 min readEA link

Project for Awesome 2022: Video sign-ups

MichaelStJulesJan 10, 2022, 4:27 AM

17 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Liberty in North Korea, quick cost-effectiveness estimate

MichaelStJulesNov 3, 2021, 2:29 AM

94 points

33 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Why does (any particular) AI safety work reduce s-risks more than it increases them?

MichaelStJulesOct 3, 2021, 4:55 PM

48 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

It takes 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to simulate a single biological neuron [Link]

MichaelStJulesSep 7, 2021, 9:53 PM

44 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

How much should we still worry about catching COVID? [Links and Discussion Thread]

MichaelStJulesAug 29, 2021, 6:06 AM

21 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Welfare Footprint Project—a blueprint for quantifying animal pain

MichaelStJulesJun 26, 2021, 8:05 PM

74 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Voting open for Project for Awesome 2021!

MichaelStJulesFeb 12, 2021, 2:22 AM

33 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Project for Awesome 2021: Video signup and resources

MichaelStJulesJan 31, 2021, 1:57 AM

11 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Project for Awesome 2021: Early coordination

MichaelStJulesJan 27, 2021, 7:11 PM

57 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Even Allocation Strategy under High Model Ambiguity

MichaelStJulesDec 31, 2020, 9:10 AM

15 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

[Summary] Impacts of Animal Well‐Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand

MichaelStJulesNov 5, 2020, 9:11 AM

40 points

11 comments6 min readEA link

Hedging against deep and moral uncertainty

MichaelStJulesSep 12, 2020, 11:44 PM

83 points

16 comments9 min readEA link