New Works in Philosophy posted our summary of "A Timing Problem for Instrumental Convergence" newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/a-timing-p...

My paper on "The Moral Importance of Low-Welfare Species" is now available online first: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jpe/news/207/ It discusses whether benefits for species with small welfare ranges can outweigh significant human goods.

Will a superintelligence preserve its goals just because that makes it better at achieving its goals? We argue no: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Has anyone written about whether Barron Trump's being a student at NYU protects NYU against Trump's attacks on universities? Last I checked, NYU wasn't on Trump's list of universities to defund

Nice takedown of the phrase "moral blackmail": benthams.substack.com/p/the-phrase...

Every time I get a head rush, I think about whether my life would be worth living if I had a head rush every waking moment, and I can never settle on an answer

Hehehe good thing no one can see what I'm writing in my secret scratchpad

"Jonathan Birch is for Terminator/Hal 9000. Eliezer Yudkowsky is for you." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...