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Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)

Karma: 187

I studied Physics, hold a MSc in Photonics and was working for some years in a micro-cavitation lab. Then, as I wanted to work in improving the long-term future, I switched and did a PhD in applied foresight. Since then, I work as foresight researcher, first in the Centre for Foresight and Internationalisation of the Łukasiewicz Network and currently in Fraunhofer ISI. I helped to design Nüwa, a 1M people Mars city-state ranked top 10 in the Mars Society contest 2020, and have experience in sustainability projects and social volunteering. I’m very interested in the relation between global energy and progress, and their consequences for the environment, which may pose a global catastrophic risk. Dad of 2 still in that period when there’s no time for anything else than taking care of them and working.

[Question] Is Musk still net-pos­i­tive for hu­man­ity?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)10 Jan 2025 9:33 UTC
11 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Do EAs feel bad for kil­ling a mosquito? Should they feel bad?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)28 Aug 2024 21:42 UTC
17 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Me­diocre EAs: ca­reer paths and how do they en­gage with EA?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)11 Apr 2024 8:36 UTC
81 points
54 comments1 min readEA link

In­vi­ta­tion to par­ti­ci­pate in AGI global gov­er­nance Real-Time Delphi ques­tion­naire—The Millen­nium Project

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)13 Dec 2023 13:35 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why Stanis­lav Petrov was not awarded the No­bel Peace Price?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)12 Oct 2023 13:24 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Donat­ing hair to make wigs: an effec­tive way to help peo­ple with cancer

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)2 Oct 2023 11:06 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

Paus­ing AI vs De­growth in rich countries

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)23 Sep 2023 7:09 UTC
−2 points
53 comments1 min readEA link

mikbp’s Quick takes

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)16 Sep 2023 15:34 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sider donat­ing your hair

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)23 Jul 2023 10:59 UTC
−2 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

ChatGPT is ca­pa­ble of cog­ni­tive em­pa­thy!

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)30 Mar 2023 20:42 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

Con­sul­tants and the Cri­sis of Cap­i­tal­ism—Maz­zu­cato & Collington

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)19 Mar 2023 10:46 UTC
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.project-syndicate.org)

“Is this risk ac­tu­ally ex­is­ten­tial?” may be less im­por­tant than we think

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)3 Mar 2023 22:18 UTC
8 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Trac­tors that need to be con­nected to func­tion?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)31 Oct 2022 20:42 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is there any­one look­ing at the im­por­tance of sim­plify­ing com­plex so­cio-tech­ni­cal sys­tems?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)12 Sep 2022 7:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Short­ter­mism—by Robert Wright

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)16 Aug 2022 20:00 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

[Question] Any­one has a refer­ence for “It’s es­ti­mated that abo­li­tion cost Bri­tain 2% of its GDP for 50 years”?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)16 Aug 2022 19:26 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Mat­sés—Are lan­guages pro­vid­ing epistemic cer­tainty of state­ments not of the in­ter­est of the EA com­mu­nity?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)8 Jun 2021 19:25 UTC
15 points
12 comments1 min readEA link