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Welfare Biology and AI: The Quiz
Are you Quiverfull, pro-life, or pro-choice – but for nematodes? A quiz to find your place on the welfare ecology map.
 • Dawn Drescher
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
Breaking the Cycle of Trauma and Tyranny: How Psychological Wounds Shape History
A developmental perspective on authoritarian leadership and how we can build more resilient societies
 • Dawn Drescher
Direct Suffering Caused by Various Animal Foods
I converted Brian Tomasik’s How Much Direct Suffering Is Caused by Various Animal Foods? to Guesstimate. We now have ranges, distributions, and the…
 • 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
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
Beware Momentum
I pose the question whether we’re again building too much momentum toward what we think is best and thereby erode our ability to react to new insights…
 • Dawn Drescher
Donation Decisions of 2018
A summary of my donation decisions of 2018. Please see my previous posts from the year for more reasoning behind the tentative conclusions I draw here.
 • 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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