I lead Effective Altruism Lund in southern Sweden, while wrapping up my M.Sc. in Engineering Physics specializing in machine learning. I’m a social team player who likes high ceilings and big picture work. Scared of AI, intrigued by biorisk, hopeful about animal welfare.
My interests outside of EA, in hieroglyphs: 🎸🧙🏼♂️🌐💪🏼🎉📚👾🎮✍🏼🛹
This calls to mind The Technological Completion Conjecture, which suggests we should focus on the order of inventions rather than whether we want then invented at all.
We could posit some “Moral Completeness Conjecture” in the same way. Then we only need look for the order in which we want interventions (like ASRS risk mitigation & stopping animal factory farming) that improve the world. It’s already trivial that som paths to utopia are much worse than others.
When EA Lund does tabling at student association fairs, one thing that’s gotten a laugh out of some people is having two plates of cookies people can take from. One of them gets a sticky saying “this cookie saves one (1) life”, and the other gets a sticky saying “this cookie saves 100 lives!”