Sequences

 Over the Fall of 2021, I worked under a grant from the Long Term Future Fund to do independent research. I’m publishing what I wrote in sequences.

The inaugural sequence for this blog is called The Crux. It’s about how I understand the relationship between Progress Studies and Effective Altruism. It comes in three parts:

  1. Action

  2. Thinking

  3. Collaboration

I then wrote a sequence post about change. It grew out of a cluster of questions in my head:

  • What should we make of high modernist attempts to radically reshape the world? These attempts seem to be the source of human progress, but they also seem to pose certain risks, perhaps catastrophic and existential risks.

  • Where are we even able to enact high modernist styles of reform? If systems are efficient, how can we change them?

  • How should effective altruists and progress advocates weigh progress against the risk of catastrophic risk?

  • To what degree is a general theory of all this possible?

I hope to make a very humble contribution in how we think about these questions in this sequence.

  1. [Coming soon]