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Daily Paper CastHumanity's Last Exam
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Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, Nathaniel Li, Josephina Hu, Hugh Zhang, Sean Shi, Michael Choi, Anish Agrawal, Arnav Chopra, Adam Khoja, Ryan Kim, Jason Hausenloy, Oliver Zhang, Mantas Mazeika, Daron Anderson, Tung Nguyen, Mobeen Mahmood, Fiona Feng, Steven Y. Feng, Haoran Zhao, Michael Yu, Varun Gangal, Chelsea Zou, Zihan Wang, Jessica P. Wang, Pawan Kumar, Oleksandr Pokutnyi, Robert Gerbicz, Serguei Popov, John-Clark Levin, Mstyslav Kazakov, Johannes Schmitt, Geoff Galgon, Alvaro Sanchez, Yongki Lee, Will Yeadon, Scott Sauers, Marc Roth, Chidozie Agu, Søren Riis, Fabian Giska, Saiteja Utpa...2025-01-2822 min
Mutual UnderstandingIn what sense are there coherence theorems?In this episode, Daniel Filan and I talk about Elliot Thornley’s LessWrong post There are no coherence theorems. Some other LessWrong posts we reference include:* A stylized dialogue on John Wentworth's claims about markets and optimization* Why Not SubagentsTranscript:Divia (00:03)I'm here today with Elliot Thornley, who goes by EJT on less wrong and Daniel Phylin and Elliot is currently a postdoc at the global priorities Institute working on this sort of AI stuff and also some global population work. And at the end we're goi...2024-09-201h 40
The Philosopher's NestBonus Episode! What Grad Students Wish They'd Known About Doing a PhDIn this second special bonus episode of The Philosopher's Nest, we've asked each of our last 12 guests the same question, and we've compiled each of these answers into a single episode.
We'll be hearing the following 12 Philosophy PhD students answer this question: "What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started your PhD?"
Linds Whittaker, University of Washington (S01E20)
Dario Vaccaro, University of Tenessee, Knoxville (S01E21)
Cara-Julie Kather, Leuphana University of LĂĽneberg (S01E22)
Logan Mitchell, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (S01E23)
Sophie Gibert, MIT (S01E...2023-05-2217 min
The Philosopher's NestElliott Thornley on Population Ethics, Global Catastrophic Risks, and Writing an Integrated Thesis
Today we're going to be joined by Elliott Thornley, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. We'll be talking about Elliott’s work on population ethics and global priorities research, as well as his thoughts on writing an integrated thesis rather than a monograph thesis. If, after listening, you'd like to get in touch with Elliott, you can find his email address on his website: www.elliott-thornley.com, and you can follow him on twitter at @ElliottThornley.
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Music credit: @progressivaudio2023-05-0821 min
TYPE III AUDIO (All episodes)"How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism’s limited role" by Elliott Thornley and Carl Shulman---client: ea_forumproject_id: curatedfeed_id: ai ai_safety ai_safety__governance narrator: pwqa: mdsnarrator_time: 7h00mqa_time: 2h00m---Longtermists have argued that humanity should significantly increase its efforts to prevent catastrophes like nuclear wars, pandemics, and AI disasters. But one prominent longtermist argument overshoots this conclusion: the argument also implies that humanity should reduce the risk of existential catastrophe even at extreme cost to the present generation. This overshoot means that democratic governments cannot use the longtermist argument to...2023-03-221h 16
Future Matters ReaderShulman & Thornley — How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism's limited roleCarl Shulman & Elliott Thornley argue that the goal of longtermists should be to get governments to adopt global catastrophic risk policies based on standard cost-benefit analysis rather than arguments that stress the overwhelming importance of the future.
https://philpapers.org/archive/SHUHMS.pdf
Note: Tables, notes and references in the original article have been omitted.2023-03-2057 min
The Chubb InterviewsSimon Thornley - RestorationsIn our first episode, Jodie and James Elliott of Octane magazine, talk to restorer, Simon Thornley about his work. You'll hear how a lifelong passion kindled by a chance encounter with a Jaguar E-Type led to Simon being entrusted with the restoration of a million-pound Alfa Romeo, with one infamous former owner. And in our 'One piece at a Time' segment, we invite every guest to bring along one prized possession that connects them to classic cars. It could be a bit of a car, a photograph, a special memory even! By the end of the seri...2020-04-2340 min