Tag: Longtermism

Doing empirical global priorities research: the question of civilizational collapse and recovery| Luisa Rodriguez

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Luisa Rodriguez discusses approaches to global priorities research, focusing on answering important empirical questions. She uses her recent work on civilizational collapse and recovery as a case study.

Luisa Rodriguez is research fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Previously, she researched nuclear war at Rethink Priorities and as a visiting researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute. Before that, she conducted cost-effectiveness evaluations of nonprofit and government programs at ImpactMatters, Innovations for Poverty Action, and GiveWell (as a summer intern).

This talk was taken from EA Student Summit 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the PowerPoint presentation.

Evidence, cluelessness and the long term | Hilary Greaves

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Principles of effective altruism counsel paying close attention to the evidence, to find the most cost-effective opportunities to do good. But evidence covers only the more immediate effects of any intervention, and it’s highly likely the vast majority of the value is thereby omitted from the calculation. Hilary discusses the range of possible responses to this fact, and in particular whether it supports or instead undermines “longtermism”.

This talk was taken from EA Student Summit 2020. Click here to watch the talk with the PowerPoint presentation.