Reflective Altruism @ReflectiveAlt
Using academic research to drive positive change within and around the effective altruism movement. https://t.co/1OdfLBv4W1 Oxford, UK Joined December 2022-
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"Why can't we shut it down" is usually taken to be a terrible objection to AI risk. I'm not sure that's true. reflectivealtruism.com/2026/06/12/rev…
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Concerned that AI systems can't be easily shut down? I'm not so sure. arxiv.org/abs/2606.08296
@_revoluzia_ Congrats soon-to-be-doctor!
Fanatical decision theories have problems, but anti-fanatical decision theories have problems too. reflectivealtruism.com/2026/05/29/fan…
Hard to find a better demonstration of the dangers of relying on sparse and unreliable quantified evidence, just because it's quantified, in the face of much better counter-evidence. forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Gr3owHS3…
From RCTs to back-of-the-envelope calculations and now AI doing back-of-the-envelope calculations. Wrong direction, effective altruists.
The case for longtermism is strongest on fanatical decision theories. There are some good arguments for fanaticism. reflectivealtruism.com/2026/05/15/fan…
@S_OhEigeartaigh I did 4.5 hours/day of writing, 6 days/week while writing my first book (which counts all directly related tasks such as directed reading, outlining, planning, writing revising, ...). Not all of this was spent on the book but probably 3 hours/day was. It took a year or two.
This is a good first-person account of how someone might drift away from effective altruism strangecosmos.substack.com/p/the-sad-decl…
Worth a look forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zmbfZjK5…
The case for longtermism is strongest on fanatical decision theories. Some more reasons why they might be wrong. reflectivealtruism.com/2026/05/01/fan…
@bryan_caplan Too many have done this (literally withdrawing retirement savings). Can we not encourage young people to do something they will later regret?
The case for longtermism is strongest on fanatical decision theories. They might be wrong. reflectivealtruism.com/2026/04/17/fan…
@S_OhEigeartaigh What do I have to do to get one?
Yudkowsky and Soares’ solution to AI safety: shut it down. The reality is more complicated reflectivealtruism.com/2026/04/03/if-…
Reflective Altruism is pivoting to AI safety. Blog rebrand to Reflective Alignment will follow shortly.
The beginning of an important 36 (!) part series on rationalism. Starts a bit slowly but gets very interesting later in the series. sablegm.substack.com/p/all-branches…
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Stumbled upon an interesting debate on AI super-intelligence from 2011. Yudkowsky makes three core claims/predictions, all of which are (to date) wrong: 1) That human intelligence is relatively simple and ASI can be achieved with a few small innovations; ...
Something effective altruists get right: they engage with critics. reflectivealtruism.com/2026/03/20/get…
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