Will Aldred

Nov 19, 2023 | forum.effectivealtruism.org | Ariel Simnegar |Emily Oehlsen |Will Aldred |Vasco Grilo

The evidence that animal welfare dominates in neartermism is strong. Open Philanthropy (OP) should scale up its animal welfare allocation over several years to approach a majority of OP's neartermist grantmaking. If OP disagrees, they should practice reasoning transparency by clarifying their views:How much weight does OP's theory of welfare place on pleasure and pain, as opposed to nonhedonic goods?

Jul 5, 2023 | forum.effectivealtruism.org | Geoffrey Miller |Oleg Alexandrov |Roman Leventov |Will Aldred

The post is ~900 words so I would recommend reading it, but the key takeaways are:OpenAI are starting a new “superintelligence alignment” team, led by Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist at OpenAI) and Jan Leike (Alignment team lead at OpenAI). Ilya Sutskever will be making this his core research focus.

Apr 10, 2023 | forum.effectivealtruism.org | Will Aldred

This sequence outlines possible research projects that seem tractable and like they could help us work out:how much to prioritize nuclear risk reduction relative to other important problems, andwhat interventions to prioritize the area of nuclear risk reductionEach project idea should make sense by itself, so you should feel free to read only the summary & introduction post and then the post(s) for any particular idea(s) you’re interested in.