Core Beliefs
Theses that roughly capture how I see the world. Expand each section to see related tweets.
These are starting points, not final words. I reserve the right to be wrong about any of them.
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The Medical Permission Slip Regime Causes Massive Suffering
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EA Is Basically Right, but Its Institutions Are Misallocating
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AGI Is the Most Important Thing Happening, and We're Handling It Poorly
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Animal Suffering Is the Main Story
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Mechanistic Reasoning Should Outweigh Naive Empiricism
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Consciousness Is Real, and Denying It Undermines All of Ethics
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Value Is Objectively Real; Duties Are Not
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Decision Theory Is Just Ethics in a Trench Coat
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The Moral Map Is Not the Moral Territory
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