Maybe I'll take this opportunity to re-share some of my favourite posts. 🧵 (1) 'My Big Ideas' highlights and explains five major themes from my work https://t.co/dfFR2aByLe

GiveDirectly’s Substack fundraiser is just a few thousand dollars short of a million! If you’d like, you can chip in via the link below. It's a sure-fire way to help some of the people who need it most.

A lot of people say that EA ideas in charitable giving specifically (try to figure out where your money's doing the most good) are so obvious that it's just a motte for the very weird bailey of all the other EA ideas. But basically every time I bring up the idea of trying to

For the past few months, I’ve been putting together a campaign to fight for free speech in the UK. Check out our launch video, which explains why I think this campaign is so important.

Fanatics:

Commonsense effective altruism = choose better rather than worse options within your preferred cause area (e.g. helping your kids). EA Movement = Trying to put different cause areas on a common scale to compare against each other = Effective Utilitarianism.

Esp. frustrating that utilitarians like this poster use the label to imply that those of us who are effectively altruistic within our families are somehow ineffective or lacking in altruism. Everyone is EA! We just reject the movement's utilitarianism!!

I was on board with effective altruism when it just meant doing what's best for your family. But then the movement was coopted by ideologues obsessed with African children. Utilitarian freaks, lol

There's also "Philosophers Against Malaria" fundraiser here:

Then help some people too, via my GiveDirectly fundraiser:

Donate here to support my campaign for sensible shrimp centrism against the extremists to either side:

The case for shrimp welfare needn’t lead you to never help another human being again. Just create a subagent to speak for the shrimp and give them resources proportionate to your confidence in the shrimp-friendly worldview: it surely shouldn’t be zero! https://t.co/oUGiFZkS7X

Vaccines—like charitable donations—sometimes kill people. But preventing them kills even more. https://t.co/QVbK9AqYgV

Here's the English original (also open access):

My 2020 paper co-authored with @PeterSinger, 'Pandemic ethics: the case for risky research', has been translated into French! https://t.co/DmIR7fvJJ6

Claude had some useful advice, unsurprisingly:

I precede this with a fairly generic: "I'm an academic philosopher and value clear and precise answers without gratuitous emotional padding or sycophancy." Other suggestions welcome.

Any current system prompt tips? I've found this one useful: > Feel free to add a bonus "out of distribution" answer that you'd normally suppress, if you feel like you have info that would better serve my underlying goals even if it's different than what I explicitly asked for.

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be

Which agent-type (individual, corporate, or government) would you regard as best at directing society's altruistic resources? (If not corporations, is that a reason to be dubious of CSR?) https://t.co/nk2jBary6l

One of the hardest things in philosophy is to get readers to update their preconceptions about a view... https://t.co/AWB2cJLB5V