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Christian Tarsney | Non-additive axiologies in large worlds Global Priorities Seminar Read the paper Presented as part of the Global Priorities Seminar series 26 June 2020 View full transcript Expand CHRISTIAN TARSNEY: (00:09) All right. So as Andreas said, the paper is called Non-Additive Axiologies in Large Worlds, and it’s joint work with Teru Thomas, […]
Johanna Thoma | Risk imposition by artificial agents: the moral proxy problem Global Priorities Seminar Presented as part of the Global Priorities Seminar series 19 June 2020 View full transcript Expand JOHANNA THOMA: (00:09) Thanks so much for the introduction and for the invitation. I’m really happy to speak to this group. My normal research
Andreas Mogensen | The good news about just saving Global Priorities Seminar Presented as part of the Global Priorities Seminar series 12 June 2020 View full transcript Expand ANDREAS MOGENSEN (00:10) So I take it that the central question in the theory of Intergenerational Justice can be posed roughly as follows. Most of the people
John Broome | Population, separability, and discounting Global Priorities Seminar Presented as part of the Global Priorities Seminar series 5 June 2020 View full transcript Expand JOHN BROOME: (00:10) I’m going to be talking at a rather high level of abstraction about economic evaluations, the most common method of economic evaluation which is a two-step
Will MacAskill | What we owe the future Virtually presented to Harvard University Students April 2020 View full transcript Expand WILL MACASKILL: (00:00) Hi. Thank you all for attending this lecture and thank you so much Professor Pinker for inviting me to speak. I’m sorry that it’s trying times and I’m not able to be
Andreas Mogensen | What does the future ask of us? Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute December 2019 View full transcript Expand ANDREAS MOGENSEN: (00:06) So a back-of-the-envelope calculation due to the philosopher Nick Bostrom who suggests that if the earth remains habitable for another one billion years and can sustainably support a population
Christian Tarsney | Can we predictably improve the far future? Presentation given at Effective Altruism Global London, October 2019 View full transcript Expand CHRISTIAN J. TARSNEY: (00:07) So, a lot of people in the EA community think that if we want to do the most good with a given unit of resources, we should focus
Teruji Thomas | The Asymmetry, Uncertainty, and the Long Term Read the paper Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute September 2019 View full transcript Expand TERUJI THOMAS: (00:06) Hi. I’m Teru Thomas from the Global Priorities Institute and I’m going to be talking about a paper I’ve been working on which will be called
Christian Tarsney | The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism Read the paper Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute, June 2019 View Full Transcript Expand CHRISTIAN J. TARSNEY: (00:07) Longtermism is roughly the view that in most of the choice situations or at least most of the most important choice situations that we face today, what
Andreas Mogensen | The Only Ethical Argument for Positive Delta? Read the paper Presentation given at the Global Priorities Institute, June 2019 View Full Transcript Expand ANDREAS MOGENSEN: (00:06) So the question I’d like to reflect on is: what sacrifices we should be willing to make for the sake of future people, in particular under
