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Podcast: Bryan Caplan on open borders, UBI, totalitarianism, AI, pandemics, utilitarianism and labor economics
Puzzles for Some
Four Quotes on Preference Utilitarianism
Two Types of Average Utilitarianism
Pitching EA to someone who believes certain goods can't be assigned a value
Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism
Partial Aggregation's Utility Monster
The Ultimate Argument Against Deontology And For Utilitarianism
What is the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell's top life-saving charities under total utilitarianism?
Success Maximization: An Alternative to Expected Utility Theory and a Generalization of Maxipok to Moral Uncertainty
Economic inequality and the long-term future
In Pursuit of Practical Ethics: Eudaimonic Utilitarianism with Kantian Priors
Find out how utilitarian you are - a mega thread of philosophy polls
Rabbits, robots and resurrection
Calibration dilemmas in the ethics of distribution
Zero Utils: why utility wants to be additive
Maybe Utilitarianism Is More Usefully A Theory For Deciding Between Other Ethical Theories
Why AGIs utility can't outweigh humans' utility?
Arguing for utilitarianism
Article Against Utilitarianism
Moral demands and the far future
A Bridge Between Utilitarianism & Stoicism
Examining the Trolley Problem Through the Doctrine of the Double Effect (DDE)
EA Should Rename Itself
MORE Effective Altruism
Against Negative Utilitarianism
The Importance of Artificial Sentience
Prioritization Questions for Artificial Sentience
Robert Long on Why You Might Want To Care About Artificial Sentience
Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide
80k podcast episode on sentience in AI systems
Sentience Institute 2021 End of Year Summary
Assessing Sentience in Artificial Entities
On the (In)Applicability of Corporate Rights Cases to Digital Minds
AI Wellbeing
What to think when a language model tells you it's sentient
Announcing AI Welfare Debate Week (July 1-7)
The Terminology of Artificial Sentience
The Future Might Not Be So Great
Sentience Institute 2022 End of Year Summary
The History of AI Rights Research
Future Matters #3: digital sentience, AGI ruin, and forecasting track records
What can we do now to prepare for AI sentience, in order to protect them from the global scale of human sadism?
Announcing the Launch of the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program
Digital Minds: Importance and Key Research Questions
The importance of getting digital consciousness right
The problem of artificial suffering
Project ideas: Sentience and rights of digital minds
Discussion Thread: AI Welfare Debate Week
Implementational Considerations for Digital Consciousness
Summary of 'Sharing the World With Digital Minds' by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom
What's the deal with AI consciousness?
What ever happened to PETRL (People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners)?
Artificial Suffering and Pascal's Mugging: What to think?
Conscious AI & Public Perception: Four futures
Sentience in Machines - How Do We Test for This Objectively?
The Limits of Artificial Consciousness: A Biology-Based Critique of Chalmers Fading Qualia Argument
How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?
An Evolution Revolution: using personal digital twin software, artificial sentience and quantum physics to solve genetic disorders
(Linkpost) An update from Good Ventures
Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy
Key Lessons From Social Movement History
Rethink Priorities' Digital Consciousness Project Announcement
On the longtermist case for working on farmed animals (Uncertainties & research ideas)
AGI x Animal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Opportunity?
The Value of Consciousness as a Pivotal Question
Carl Shulman on the moral status of current and future AI systems
Making AI Welfare an EA priority requires justifications that have not been given
Improving the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal
It takes 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to simulate a single biological neuron (Link)
Taking Into Account Sentient Non-Humans in AI Ambitious Value Learning: Sentientist Coherent Extrapolated Volition
Humanitys vast future and its implications for cause prioritization
LLMs cannot usefully be moral patients
The Subject in Subjective Time: A New Approach to Aggregating Wellbeing (paper draft)
(link post) AI Should Be Terrified of Humans
My current takes on AI Welfare
Mike, Mouse, Moth, Machine
AI Consciousness Report: A Roundtable Discussion
What are the Red Flags for Neural Network Suffering? - Seeds of Science call for reviewers
Should some people start working to influence the people who are most likely to shape the values of the first AGIs, so that they take into account the interests of wild and farmed animals and sentient digital minds?
AE Studio @ SXSW: We need more AI consciousness research (and further resources)
Introducing the World-Wide Digital Wild Worm Welfare Initiative: A New Frontier for Effective Altruism
Global computing capacity
Nervous Systems, Functionalism, and Artificial Minds
Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics
Shortlived sentience/consciousness
Exploring the Esoteric Pathways to AI Sentience (Part One)
Steering AI to care for animals, and soon
Announcing The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why
Interview with Jon Mallatt about invertebrate consciousness
How come there isn't that much focus in EA on research into whether / when AI's are likely to be sentient?
AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 - Retrospective
Abandoning functionalism: Some intuition pumps
Why Im skeptical about using subjective time experience to assign moral weights
Future technological progress does NOT correlate with methods that involve less suffering
Only mammals and birds are sentient, according to neuroscientist Nick Humphreys theory of consciousness, recently explained in Sentience: The invention of consciousness
New Working Paper Series of the Legal Priorities Project
Why I'm focusing on invertebrate sentience
Will disagreement about AI rights lead to societal conflict?
A selection of some writings and considerations on the cause of artificial sentience

Podcast: Bryan Caplan on open borders, UBI, totalitarianism, AI, pandemics, utilitarianism and labor economics

Puzzles for Some

Four Quotes on Preference Utilitarianism

Two Types of Average Utilitarianism

Pitching EA to someone who believes certain goods can't be assigned a value

Interview with Christine M. Korsgaard: Animal Ethics, Kantianism, Utilitarianism

Partial Aggregation's Utility Monster

The Ultimate Argument Against Deontology And For Utilitarianism

What is the cost-effectiveness of GiveWell's top life-saving charities under total utilitarianism?

Success Maximization: An Alternative to Expected Utility Theory and a Generalization of Maxipok to Moral Uncertainty

Economic inequality and the long-term future

In Pursuit of Practical Ethics: Eudaimonic Utilitarianism with Kantian Priors

Find out how utilitarian you are - a mega thread of philosophy polls

Rabbits, robots and resurrection

Calibration dilemmas in the ethics of distribution

Zero Utils: why utility wants to be additive

Maybe Utilitarianism Is More Usefully A Theory For Deciding Between Other Ethical Theories

Why AGIs utility can't outweigh humans' utility?

Arguing for utilitarianism

Article Against Utilitarianism

Moral demands and the far future

A Bridge Between Utilitarianism & Stoicism

Examining the Trolley Problem Through the Doctrine of the Double Effect (DDE)

EA Should Rename Itself

MORE Effective Altruism

Against Negative Utilitarianism

The Importance of Artificial Sentience

Prioritization Questions for Artificial Sentience

Robert Long on Why You Might Want To Care About Artificial Sentience

Key questions about artificial sentience: an opinionated guide

80k podcast episode on sentience in AI systems

Sentience Institute 2021 End of Year Summary

Assessing Sentience in Artificial Entities

On the (In)Applicability of Corporate Rights Cases to Digital Minds

AI Wellbeing

What to think when a language model tells you it's sentient

Announcing AI Welfare Debate Week (July 1-7)

The Terminology of Artificial Sentience

The Future Might Not Be So Great

Sentience Institute 2022 End of Year Summary

The History of AI Rights Research

Future Matters #3: digital sentience, AGI ruin, and forecasting track records

What can we do now to prepare for AI sentience, in order to protect them from the global scale of human sadism?

Announcing the Launch of the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program

Digital Minds: Importance and Key Research Questions

The importance of getting digital consciousness right

The problem of artificial suffering

Project ideas: Sentience and rights of digital minds

Discussion Thread: AI Welfare Debate Week

Implementational Considerations for Digital Consciousness

Summary of 'Sharing the World With Digital Minds' by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom

What's the deal with AI consciousness?

What ever happened to PETRL (People for the Ethical Treatment of Reinforcement Learners)?

Artificial Suffering and Pascal's Mugging: What to think?

Conscious AI & Public Perception: Four futures

Sentience in Machines - How Do We Test for This Objectively?

The Limits of Artificial Consciousness: A Biology-Based Critique of Chalmers Fading Qualia Argument

How Can Computation Cause Consciousness?

An Evolution Revolution: using personal digital twin software, artificial sentience and quantum physics to solve genetic disorders

(Linkpost) An update from Good Ventures

Announcing a $6,000,000 endowment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy

Key Lessons From Social Movement History

Rethink Priorities' Digital Consciousness Project Announcement

On the longtermist case for working on farmed animals (Uncertainties & research ideas)

AGI x Animal Welfare: A High-EV Outreach Opportunity?

The Value of Consciousness as a Pivotal Question

Carl Shulman on the moral status of current and future AI systems

Making AI Welfare an EA priority requires justifications that have not been given

Improving the Welfare of AIs: A Nearcasted Proposal

It takes 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to simulate a single biological neuron (Link)

Taking Into Account Sentient Non-Humans in AI Ambitious Value Learning: Sentientist Coherent Extrapolated Volition

Humanitys vast future and its implications for cause prioritization

LLMs cannot usefully be moral patients

The Subject in Subjective Time: A New Approach to Aggregating Wellbeing (paper draft)

(link post) AI Should Be Terrified of Humans

My current takes on AI Welfare

Mike, Mouse, Moth, Machine

AI Consciousness Report: A Roundtable Discussion

What are the Red Flags for Neural Network Suffering? - Seeds of Science call for reviewers

Should some people start working to influence the people who are most likely to shape the values of the first AGIs, so that they take into account the interests of wild and farmed animals and sentient digital minds?

AE Studio @ SXSW: We need more AI consciousness research (and further resources)

Introducing the World-Wide Digital Wild Worm Welfare Initiative: A New Frontier for Effective Altruism

Global computing capacity

Nervous Systems, Functionalism, and Artificial Minds

Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics

Shortlived sentience/consciousness

Exploring the Esoteric Pathways to AI Sentience (Part One)

Steering AI to care for animals, and soon

Announcing The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why

Interview with Jon Mallatt about invertebrate consciousness

How come there isn't that much focus in EA on research into whether / when AI's are likely to be sentient?

AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 - Retrospective

Abandoning functionalism: Some intuition pumps

Why Im skeptical about using subjective time experience to assign moral weights

Future technological progress does NOT correlate with methods that involve less suffering

Only mammals and birds are sentient, according to neuroscientist Nick Humphreys theory of consciousness, recently explained in Sentience: The invention of consciousness

New Working Paper Series of the Legal Priorities Project

Why I'm focusing on invertebrate sentience

Will disagreement about AI rights lead to societal conflict?

A selection of some writings and considerations on the cause of artificial sentience