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AI Mental Health Chatbots for Low-Resource Settings: A Prioritization Framework
We’re building an AI-powered mental health chatbot targeting populations with severe mental healthcare shortages.
 • Dawn Drescher, Scott D Blain, Anand Jeevanandham, and Angie Hsu
With the Future of the World in Your Hands, Think for 6.77 Years!
How long should you think about a problem that could determine the future of all existence? A mathematical journey from simple bets to existential…
 • Dawn Drescher
Beyond Control: The Strategic Case for AI Rights
To prevent a dangerous conflict with AI, the answer isn't more control – it's a social contract. The pragmatic case for granting AIs legal rights.
 • Dawn Drescher
Evidential Cooperation as a Black Box
What if there’s finally a way to answer ethics’ age old question of how one should act? What if we can cooperate with countless beings to generate…
 • Dawn Drescher
Researchers Answering Questions 2020
I used a recent Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) of Rethink Priorities to ask a few researchers a series of questions about research in general.
 • Dawn Drescher
How Might Better Collective Decision-Making Backfire?
I’ve asked the titular question in the EA Forum. I also posted some answers of my own from the get go, but other people added more, and I, too, posted…
 • Dawn Drescher
Donations 2020
I’ve put approximately $7,000 into the $500,000 donor lottery and donated some odds and ends to the Center on Long-Term Risk
 • Dawn Drescher
Summary of Evidence, Decision, and Causality
Arif Ahmed’s Evidence, Decision, and Causality (2014) is a dense, mathematical book-length argument against causalism and for the merits of evidential…
 • Dawn Drescher
Self-Similarity Experiment
Some of the people on earth who are most similar to you are likely your own person moments from other points in time.
 • Dawn Drescher
Thoughts: Future People and Near-Term Effects
“If you value future people, why do you consider near term effects?” by Alex Holness-Tofts makes the case that a lot of reasons to focus on near-term…
 • Dawn Drescher
Self-Study Directions 2020
This post may be helpful for you if you want to snatch one of these from me and investigate it yourself and helpful for me if you have pointers for any…
 • Dawn Drescher
Thoughts: Dream Time
Over a decade ago, Robin Hanson wrote about the dream time,2 and I feel that Scott Alexander’s “Studies on Slack” has led me to understand the origin of…
 • Dawn Drescher
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