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November 7, 2024November 10, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky

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This summary of Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky sets out two competing views on the question: […]

October 5, 2024October 5, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

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In The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, Julia Galef argues that we don’t need to deceive […]

April 21, 2024October 1, 2024Book Summary

Book Summary: Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie

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In Not the End of the World, Hannah Ritchie uses data to explain why we can stand to be more optimistic about […]

February 22, 2023July 7, 2024Blog

Motivation, Morality and Demandingness

This is a short post with some musings on motivation, morality and demandingness, after reading Atomic Habits and Tiny Habits. In Atomic […]

November 24, 2022July 7, 2024Podcast Summary

Podcast Summary: EconTalk – Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future

Will MacAskill discusses longtermism and his book What We Owe the Future with Russ Roberts in this EconTalk podcast.

October 23, 2022July 7, 2024Podcast Summary

Podcast Summary: 80k Hours – Will MacAskill on what we owe the future

In this podcast summary, Will MacAskill talks about longtermism and his recent book, “What We Owe the Future”. The original podcast is 2 hours 54 minutes. The estimated reading time for this summary (excluding “My Thoughts”) is 42 minutes.

August 28, 2022July 7, 2024Blog

Problems with the Total View of Population Ethics

The Total View suggests that we should seek to maximise total wellbeing, including by creating new lives. There are problems with the Total View that have concerning implications in practice.

August 25, 2022February 26, 2025Book Summary

Book Summary: Doing Good Better by William MacAskill

Doing Good Better by William MacAskill

William MacAskill is one of the founders of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement. In Doing Good Better, he explains the reasoning behind a lot of EA ideas. The EA movement has changed a bit since 2015, when MacAskill wrote the book. But the core ideas in Doing Good Better are still very solid and worth understanding.

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