Ef_Re

• Ef_Re 26 Aug 2014 2:48 UTC

  −6 points

  in reply to: lukeprog’s comment on: An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

  I hope the forum’s participants end up discussing a well-balanced set of topics in EA, so that e.g. we don’t end up with 10% of conversations being about AGI risk mitigation while 1% of conversations are about policy interventions.

  I assume balance would imply 99% about AGI risk mitigation, and 0.001% about (non-AGI) policy interventions?

• Ef_Re 22 Aug 2014 23:46 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: 2ZctE’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 Au­gust 2014

  If you mean Yvain’s, while his stuff is in general excellent, I recommend learning about philosophical nomenclature from actual philosophers, not medics.

• Ef_Re 16 Aug 2014 18:35 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: 2ZctE’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 Au­gust 2014

  That would normally be referred to as consequentialism, not utilitarianism.

• Ef_Re 15 Aug 2014 1:58 UTC

  −2 points

  in reply to: mouseking’s comment on: Open thread, 11-17 Au­gust 2014

  To the extent that lesswrong has an official ethical system, that system is definitely not utilitarianism.

• Ef_Re 10 Aug 2014 17:34 UTC

  15 points

  on: MIRI’s 2014 Sum­mer Match­ing Challenge

  I donated!