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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
Levels of Moral Cooperation
What level of cooperation with other activists or general agenty people is optimal?
 • 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
Thoughts: The Transparent Newcomb’s Problem
Writing my summary of Evidence, Decision, and Causality, I got interested in how EDT might be able to succeed by precommitting, and how different…
 • 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
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: Free-Riding
Coordination is an oft-discussed topic within EA, and people generally try hard to behave cooperatively toward other EA researchers, entrepreneurs, and…
 • Dawn Drescher
Cooperative Moral Goals
I want to make my actions robustly positive on a normative level by choosing the moral goals to focus on according to cooperativeness heuristics on five…
 • Dawn Drescher
Current Thinking on Priorities 2018
This article documents my current thoughts on how to make the most out of my experiment with earning to give.
 • Dawn Drescher
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