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Showing posts with label philosophical. Show all posts

Showing posts with label philosophical. Show all posts

2021-10-17

Death is bad

3.5k words (about 12 minutes) Sometime in the future, we might have the technology to extend lifespans indefinitely and make people effect...

2020-08-10

EA ideas 4: utilitarianism

4.9k words (≈17 minutes) Posts in this series: FIRST | PREVIOUS | NEXT Many ideas in effective altruism (EA) do not require a particular ...

2020-07-26

EA ideas 3: uncertainty

2.0k words (7 minutes) Posts in this series: FIRST | PREVIOUS | NEXT Moral uncertainty is uncertainty over the definition of good. F...

2020-07-25

EA ideas 2: expected value and risk neutrality

2.6k words (9 minutes) Posts in this series: PREVIOUS | NEXT The expected value (EV) of an event / choice / random variable is the sum, ...

2018-05-21

Review: Permutation City (Greg Egan)

Book: Permutation City, by Greg Egan (1979). 2.2k words (≈ 8 minutes) One way to classify science fiction works is by the scope of the sp...

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