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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
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
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
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
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
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
Wild Animal Suffering Research Ideas 2019
Important questions related to wild animal suffering that I wish I had the time to research.
 • Dawn Drescher
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