Matt Johnson
Person on 2 sites
Journalist and author writing on politics, liberalism and ideas; a contributor to Quillette and co-author of a book on Christopher Hitchens.
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2023-12-21 -
6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today. (opens korrents.com)
“The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.”
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Effective altruism demands hard evidence of effectiveness in some of its causes while accepting abstract conjecture in others, and never justifies the split. (opens korrents.com)
“While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely…”
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Spending on existential risk cannot be held accountable, because there is no measurement that would ever show it failing. (opens korrents.com)
“Unlike other interventions EA has sponsored, there are scant metrics for tracking the success or failure of investments in existential risk mitigation.”
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Making humanity's long-term potential the overriding priority licenses imposing real costs on people who are alive today. (opens korrents.com)