finm

I do research at Longview Philanthropy. Previously I was a Research scholar at FHI and assistant to Toby Ord. Philosophy at Cambridge before that.

I also do a podcast about EA called Hear This Idea.

Posts

Beware point estimates of problem difficulty
by finm @ 2024-05-27 | +23 | 0 comments

Chuck Feeney (1931–2023)
by finm @ 2023-10-11 | +192 | 0 comments

New DeepMind report on institutions for global AI governance
by finm @ 2023-07-14 | +10 | 0 comments

First clean water, now clean air
by finm @ 2023-04-30 | +188 | 0 comments

Some more projects I’d like to see
by finm @ 2023-02-25 | +67 | 0 comments

Short summary of What We Owe The Future
by finm @ 2023-02-12 | +29 | 0 comments

Some Carl Sagan quotations
by finm @ 2022-10-10 | +77 | 0 comments

Announcing Amplify creative grants
by finm, Luca Righetti 🔸, Toby Tremlett🔹 @ 2022-10-03 | +100 | 0 comments

Space governance - problem profile
by finm, 80000_Hours @ 2022-05-08 | +65 | 0 comments

Concave and convex altruism
by finm @ 2022-04-27 | +32 | 0 comments

EA Projects I'd Like to See
by finm @ 2022-03-13 | +153 | 0 comments

Risks from Asteroids
by finm @ 2022-02-11 | +44 | 0 comments

Two Podcast Opportunities
by finm @ 2021-12-29 | +68 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Bryan Caplan on Causes of Poverty and the Case for Open Borders
by finm @ 2021-10-07 | +23 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Ben Todd on Choosing a Career and Defining Longtermism
by finm @ 2021-10-04 | +6 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Anders Sandberg on the Fermi Paradox, Transhumanism, and so much more
by finm @ 2021-10-01 | +14 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Jeffrey Sachs on Sustainable Development
by finm @ 2021-09-28 | +5 | 0 comments

Three podcast episodes on energy and climate change
by finm @ 2021-09-24 | +38 | 0 comments

Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary)
by finm, ab @ 2021-09-17 | +320 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Thomas Moynihan on the History of Existential Risk
by finm @ 2021-03-22 | +26 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Marcus Daniell on High Impact Athletes, Communicating EA, and the...
by finm @ 2021-03-03 | +13 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Luke Freeman on Giving What We Can and Community Building
by finm @ 2021-01-31 | +10 | 0 comments

[Podcast] Simon Beard on Parfit, Climate Change, and Existential Risk
by finm @ 2021-01-28 | +11 | 0 comments

Introduction to Longtermism
by finm @ 2021-01-27 | +79 | 0 comments

Four podcast episodes on animal advocacy
by finm @ 2021-01-25 | +7 | 0 comments

finm's Quick takes
by finm @ 2021-01-21 | +3 | 0 comments

Introduction to the Philosophy of Well-Being
by finm @ 2020-12-07 | +45 | 0 comments

Scale-norming in the measurement of subjective well-being
by finm @ 2020-11-02 | +14 | 0 comments

Review and Summary of 'Moral Uncertainty'
by finm @ 2020-10-02 | +37 | 0 comments

Suggest a question for Bruce Friedrich of GFI
by finm @ 2020-09-05 | +8 | 0 comments

Suggest a question for Peter Singer
by finm @ 2020-09-05 | +16 | 0 comments

Eliciting donations through causal closeness
by finm @ 2020-08-10 | +7 | 0 comments

Four EA podcast episodes
by finm @ 2020-07-24 | +32 | 0 comments