Month: August 2022
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On the Philosophical Foundations of EA
Intro EAs Should Care More About Philosophical Ethics I think EAs should care more about debates around which ethical theory is true and why. The EA community is really invested in problems of applied consequentialist ethics such as “how should we think about low probability / high, or infinite, magnitude…
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Four Theses on Deep Tech
The last few years have given rise to a renewed interest in deep tech. Peter Thiel’s punchy “we wanted flying cars, and all we got was 140 characters” has captured technologists’ imaginations. Meanwhile, tech has emerged as an important potential bulwark against climate change, and venture capitalists have responded by raising…
Matthew Mandel 