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c.trout

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Philosophy graduate interested in metaphysics, meta-ethics, AI safety and whole bunch of other things. Meta-ethical and moral theories of choice: neo-artistotelian naturalist realism + virtue ethics.

Unvarnished critical (but constructive) feedback is welcome.

https://​​www.ctrout.art/​​

[Out-of-date-but-still-sorta-representative-of-my-thoughts hot takes below]

Thinks longtermism rests on a false premise – some sort of total impartiality.

Thinks we should spend a lot more resources trying to delay HLMI – make AGI development uncool. Questions what we really need AGI for anyway. Accepts the epithet “luddite” so long as this is understood to describe someone who:

Seek­ing Mechanism De­signer for Re­search into In­ter­nal­iz­ing Catas­trophic Externalities

c.trout11 Sep 2024 15:09 UTC
24 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Against Ex­plo­sive Growth

c.trout4 Sep 2024 21:45 UTC
14 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

A few more ants and grasshoppers

c.trout17 Jun 2023 23:38 UTC
16 points
3 comments4 min readLW link

Call for sub­mis­sions: Choice of Fu­tures sur­vey questions

c.trout30 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
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