Owen Cotton-Barratt

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The Choice Transition
by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Raymond D @ 2024-11-18 | +42 | 0 comments
A brief history of the automated corporation
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-11-04 | +21 | 0 comments
Winners of the Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy
by Owen Cotton-Barratt, AI Impacts @ 2024-10-29 | +37 | 0 comments
AI safety tax dynamics
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-10-23 | +21 | 0 comments
Safety tax functions
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-10-20 | +23 | 0 comments
AI, centralization, and the One Ring
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-09-13 | +15 | 0 comments
The last era of human mistakes
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-07-24 | +23 | 0 comments
Caring about excellence
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-07-22 | +16 | 0 comments
Decomposing Agency — capabilities without desires
by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Raymond D @ 2024-07-11 | +37 | 0 comments
In favour of exploring nagging doubts about x-risk
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-06-25 | +89 | 0 comments
AI takeoff and nuclear war
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-06-11 | +72 | 0 comments
Owen Cotton-Barratt's Quick takes
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-05-18 | +8 | 0 comments
Essay competition on the Automation of Wisdom and Philosophy — $25k in prizes
by Owen Cotton-Barratt, AI Impacts @ 2024-04-16 | +80 | 0 comments
AI strategy given the need for good reflection
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-03-18 | +40 | 0 comments
Beyond Maxipok — good reflective governance as a target for action
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-03-15 | +43 | 0 comments
Moral ~realism
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-03-15 | +16 | 0 comments
Wholesome Culture
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-03-01 | +25 | 0 comments
Wholesomeness and Effective Altruism
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-02-28 | +32 | 0 comments
Acting Wholesomely
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2024-02-26 | +26 | 0 comments
On the future of language models
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2023-12-20 | +125 | 0 comments
A statement and an apology
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2023-02-20 | +269 | 0 comments
Announcing Interim CEOs of EVF
by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Rebecca Kagan @ 2023-01-30 | +163 | 0 comments
How and when should we incentivize people to leave EA bubbles and explore?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-08-17 | +165 | 0 comments
What I mean by "funding overhang" (and why it doesn't mean money isn't helpful)
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-07-10 | +79 | 0 comments
Let's not have a separate "community building" camp
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-06-29 | +165 | 0 comments
[linkpost] Christiano on agreement/disagreement with Yudkowsky's "List of...
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-06-19 | +130 | 0 comments
Perils of optimizing in social contexts
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-06-16 | +124 | 0 comments
Don't Over-Optimize Things
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-06-16 | +53 | 0 comments
Global health is important for the epistemic foundations of EA, even for...
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-06-02 | +163 | 0 comments
Deferring
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-05-12 | +101 | 0 comments
Against immortality?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-04-28 | +110 | 0 comments
Longtermist EA needs more Phase 2 work
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-04-20 | +241 | 0 comments
What do we want the world to look like in 10 years?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-04-20 | +126 | 0 comments
Truthful AI
by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Lukas Finnveden, ab @ 2021-10-20 | +55 | 0 comments
What should we call the other problem of cluelessness?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2021-07-03 | +52 | 0 comments
A do-gooder's safari
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2021-07-03 | +168 | 0 comments
Forget replaceability? (for ~community projects)
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2021-03-31 | +70 | 0 comments
Everyday Longtermism
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2021-01-01 | +159 | 0 comments
Good altruistic decision-making as a deep basin of attraction in meme-space
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2021-01-01 | +31 | 0 comments
Web of virtue thesis [research note]
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2021-01-01 | +57 | 0 comments
Blueprints (& lenses) for longtermist decision-making
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2020-12-21 | +49 | 0 comments
"Patient vs urgent longtermism" has little direct bearing on giving now vs later
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2020-12-09 | +178 | 0 comments
AMA: Owen Cotton-Barratt, RSP Director
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2020-08-28 | +77 | 0 comments
"Good judgement" and its components
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2020-08-19 | +63 | 0 comments
What is valuable about effective altruism? Implications for community building
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2017-06-18 | +22 | 0 comments
A new reference site: Effective Altruism Concepts
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2016-12-05 | +22 | 0 comments
Why I'm donating to MIRI this year
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2016-11-30 | +34 | 0 comments
Should effective altruism have a norm against donating to employers?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2016-11-29 | +17 | 0 comments
Donor coordination under simplifying assumptions
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2016-11-12 | +7 | 0 comments
Should donors make commitments about future donations?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2016-08-30 | +18 | 0 comments
An update on the Global Priorities Project
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-10-07 | +5 | 0 comments
Cause selection: a flowchart [link]
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-09-10 | +12 | 0 comments
How valuable is movement growth?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-05-14 | +61 | 0 comments
[Link] Discounting for uncertainty in health
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-05-07 | +4 | 0 comments
Neutral hours: a tool for valuing time
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-03-04 | +11 | 0 comments
Report -- Allocating risk mitigation across time
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-02-20 | +6 | 0 comments
Long-term reasons to favour self-driving cars
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-02-13 | +8 | 0 comments
Increasing existential hope as an effective cause?
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2015-01-10 | +10 | 0 comments
Factoring cost-effectiveness
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-12-23 | +5 | 0 comments
Make your own cost-effectiveness Fermi estimates for one-off problems
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-12-11 | +23 | 0 comments
Estimating the cost-effectiveness of research
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-12-11 | +9 | 0 comments
Effective policy? Requiring liability insurance for dual-use research
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-10-01 | +10 | 0 comments
Cooperation in a movement supporting diverse causes
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-09-23 | +18 | 0 comments
Why we should err in both directions
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-08-21 | +15 | 0 comments
Strategic considerations about different speeds of AI takeoff
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-08-13 | +10 | 0 comments
How to treat problems of unknown difficulty
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-07-30 | +27 | 0 comments
On 'causes'
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-06-24 | +10 | 0 comments
Human and animal interventions: the long-term view
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-06-02 | –2 | 0 comments
Keeping the effective altruist movement welcoming
by Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2014-02-07 | +17 | 0 comments