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What AI companies can do today to help with the most important century
lundi 20 février 2023 • Duration 18:27
Major AI companies can increase or reduce global catastrophic risks.
https://www.cold-takes.com/what-ai-companies-can-do-today-to-help-with-the-most-important-century/
Jobs that can help with the most important century
vendredi 10 février 2023 • Duration 30:42
People are far better at their jobs than at anything else. Here are the best ways to help the most important century go well.
https://www.cold-takes.com/jobs-that-can-help-with-the-most-important-century/
Nonprofit Boards are Weird
jeudi 23 juin 2022 • Duration 25:27
With great power comes, er, unclear responsibility and zero accountability.
https://www.cold-takes.com/nonprofit-boards-are-weird-2/
AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined
mardi 7 juin 2022 • Duration 23:56
How big a deal could AI misalignment be? About as big as it gets.
https://www.cold-takes.com/ai-could-defeat-all-of-us-combined/
Useful Vices for Wicked Problems
mardi 12 avril 2022 • Duration 25:19
Investigating important topics with laziness, impatience, hubris and self-preservation.
https://www.cold-takes.com/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems/
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
mardi 5 avril 2022 • Duration 17:33
What kind of governance system should you set up, if you're starting from scratch and can do it however you want?
https://www.cold-takes.com/ideal-governance-for-companies-countries-and-more/
Debating myself on whether “extra lives lived” are as good as “deaths prevented”
mardi 29 mars 2022 • Duration 20:20
Preventing extinction would be good - but "saving 8 billion lives" good or "saving a trillion trillion trillion lives" good?
https://www.cold-takes.com/debating-myself-on-whether-extra-lives-lived-are-as-good-as-deaths-prevented/
The Wicked Problem Experience
mercredi 2 mars 2022 • Duration 14:50
A day in the life of trying to complete a self-assigned project with no clear spec or goal.
https://www.cold-takes.com/the-wicked-problem-experience/
Learning By Writing
mardi 22 février 2022 • Duration 16:25
Defending One-Dimensional Ethics
mardi 15 février 2022 • Duration 26:00
First in a series of dialogues on utilitarianism and "future-proof ethics."
https://www.cold-takes.com/defending-one-dimensional-ethics/





