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August 2024

Ten arguments that AI is an existential risk
and polls on which are the most compelling
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Katja Grace
 and 
Nathan Young
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July 2024

Paper Summary: Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution
Freer societies have faster economic growth.
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Jeffrey Heninger
Paper Summary: The Effects of Communicating Uncertainty on Public Trust in Facts and Numbers
Numerically expressing uncertainty when talking to the public is fine. It causes people to be less confident in the number itself (as it should), but…
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Jeffrey Heninger
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May 2024

Advice for Activists from the History of Environmentalism
Other movements should try to avoid becoming as partisan as the environmental movement. Partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular, it made…
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Jeffrey Heninger
Was Partisanship Good for the Environmental Movement?
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer…
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Jeffrey Heninger
A Narrative History of Environmentalism's Partisanship
This post describes the history of how particular partisan alliances were made involving the environmental movement between 1980 and 2008. Since…
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Jeffrey Heninger
Environmentalism in the United States Is Unusually Partisan
Environmentalism in the United States is unusually partisan, compared to other issues, compared to other countries, and compared to the United States…
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Jeffrey Heninger
The first future and the best future
It seems to me worth trying to slow down AI development to steer successfully around the shoals of extinction and out to utopia.
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Partial value takeover without world takeover
There are lots of ways to spread values a bit
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