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"https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/03/22/on-future-people-looking-back-at-21st-century-longtermism", "published_at": "2021-03-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb1d434fa", "title": "Against neutrality about creating happy lives", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/03/14/against-neutrality-about-creating-happy-lives", "published_at": "2021-03-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb277a881", "title": "Care and demandingness", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/03/07/care-and-demandingness", "published_at": "2021-03-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb304979a", "title": "Subjectivism and moral authority", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/03/01/subjectivism-and-moral-authority", "published_at": "2021-03-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb3ffa294", "title": "Two types of deference", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/02/21/two-types-of-deference", "published_at": "2021-02-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb41921b3", "title": "Contact with reality", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/02/14/contact-with-reality", "published_at": "2021-02-14T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb4f6b80f", "title": "Killing the ants", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/02/07/killing-the-ants", "published_at": "2021-02-07T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb5c960c4", "title": "Believing in things you cannot see", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/31/believing-in-things-you-cannot-see", "published_at": "2021-01-31T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb5dc1b89", "title": "On clinging", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/24/on-clinging", "published_at": "2021-01-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb6b2133a", "title": "Actually possible: thoughts on Utopia", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/18/actually-possible-thoughts-on-utopia", "published_at": "2021-01-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb7b05dd2", "title": "Shouldn’t it matter to the victim?", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/10/shouldnt-it-matter-to-the-victim", "published_at": "2021-01-10T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb7b12cb2", "title": "The despair of normative realism bot", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/03/the-despair-of-normative-realism-bot", "published_at": "2021-01-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb875409e", "title": "A ghost", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/12/26/a-ghost", "published_at": "2020-12-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb9555394", "title": "Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?)", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/12/20/alienation-and-meta-ethics-or-is-it-possible-you-should-maximize-helium", "published_at": "2020-12-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfb97a40a9", "title": "Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/12/12/wholeheartedness-and-morality-as-taxes", "published_at": "2020-12-12T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfba717aa2", "title": "Thoughts on being mortal", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/12/06/thoughts-on-being-mortal", "published_at": "2020-12-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbac5b50b", "title": "Grokking illusionism", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/11/29/grokking-illusionism", "published_at": "2020-11-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbb74334e", "title": "The impact merge", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/11/22/the-impact-merge", "published_at": "2020-11-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbc1b5851", "title": "Thoughts on personal identity", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/11/16/thoughts-on-personal-identity", "published_at": "2020-11-16T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbc8a055f", "title": "How core is confusion about consciousness?", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/11/08/how-core-is-confusion-about-consciousness", "published_at": "2020-11-08T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbd16eb8c", "title": "To light a candle", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/11/01/to-light-a-candle", "published_at": "2020-11-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbdddd316", "title": "The gestures of trees", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/10/24/the-gestures-of-trees", "published_at": "2020-10-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbe4c09c1", "title": "Mistaking the plot", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/10/17/mistaking-the-plot", "published_at": "2020-10-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0878e-c03d-71b2-863a-2cdfbee446b8", "title": "How much computational power does it take to match the human brain?", "url": "https://joecarlsmith.com/2020/09/15/how-much-computational-power-does-it-take-to-match-the-human-brain", "published_at": "2020-09-15T08:42:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

Video and transcript of talk on writing AI constitutionsoriginal ↗
9 Apr 2026
On restraining AI development for the sake of safetyoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2026
Building AIs that do human-like philosophyoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026

2025

Video and transcript of talk on human-like-ness in AI safetyoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2025
How human-like do safe AI motivations need to be?original ↗
12 Nov 2025
Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropicoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2025
Controlling the options AIs can pursueoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2025
Video and transcript of talk on giving AIs safe motivationsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2025
Giving AIs safe motivationsoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2025
Video and transcript of talk on “Can goodness compete?”original ↗
17 Jul 2025
Video and transcript of talk on AI welfareoriginal ↗
22 May 2025
The stakes of AI moral statusoriginal ↗
21 May 2025
Video and transcript of talk on automating alignment researchoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2025
Can we safely automate alignment research?original ↗
30 Apr 2025
AI for AI safetyoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2025
Paths and waystations in AI safetyoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2025
When should we worry about AI power-seeking?original ↗
19 Feb 2025
How do we solve the alignment problem?original ↗
13 Feb 2025
What is it to solve the alignment problem?original ↗
13 Feb 2025
Fake thinking and real thinkingoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025

2024

Takes on “Alignment Faking in Large Language Models”original ↗
18 Dec 2024
Video and transcript of presentation on Otherness and control in the age of AGIoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2024
(Part 2, AI takeover) Extended audio/transcript from my conversation with Dwarkesh Pateloriginal ↗
30 Sept 2024
(Part 1, Otherness) Extended audio/transcript from my conversation with Dwarkesh Pateloriginal ↗
30 Sept 2024
Loving a world you don’t trustoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2024
On attunementoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
Video and transcript of presentation on Scheming AIsoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2024
On greenoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2024
On the abolition of manoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2024
Being nicer than Clippyoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2024
An even deeper atheismoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2024
Does AI risk “other” the AIs?original ↗
9 Jan 2024
When “yang” goes wrongoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2024
Deep atheism and AI riskoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2024
Gentleness and the artificial Otheroriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024
Otherness and control in the age of AGIoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2024

2023

New report: “Scheming AIs: Will AIs fake alignment during training in order to get power?”original ↗
15 Nov 2023
Superforecasting the premises in “Is power-seeking AI an existential risk?”original ↗
18 Oct 2023
In memory of Louise Glückoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2023
Predictable updating about AI riskoriginal ↗
8 May 2023
Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AI (shorter version)original ↗
22 Mar 2023
A Stranger Priority? Topics at the Outer Reaches of Effective Altruismoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2023
Seeing more wholeoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2023
Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?original ↗
16 Feb 2023

2022

On sincerityoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2022
Against meta-ethical hedonismoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2022
Against the normative realist’s wageroriginal ↗
9 Oct 2022
Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?original ↗
6 Sept 2022
Video and Transcript of Presentation on Existential Risk from Power-Seeking AIoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2022
Dutch books, Cox, and Complete Classoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2022
VNM, separability, and moreoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2022
Why it can be OK to predictably loseoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2022
Skyscrapers and madmenoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2022
Simulation argumentsoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2022
On infinite ethicsoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2022
The ignorance of normative realism botoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2022
Morality and constrained maximization, part 2original ↗
10 Jan 2022

2021

Morality and constrained maximization, part 1original ↗
21 Dec 2021
Anthropics and the Universal Distributionoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2021
On the Universal Distributionoriginal ↗
29 Oct 2021
In defense of the presumptuous philosopheroriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
An aside on betting in anthropicsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
Telekinesis, reference classes, and other scandalsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
Learning from the fact that you existoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
Can you control the past?original ↗
27 Aug 2021
In search of benevolence (or: what should you get Clippy for Christmas?)original ↗
19 Jul 2021
On the limits of idealized valuesoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2021
Problems of eviloriginal ↗
19 Apr 2021
The innocent geneoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2021
The importance of how you weigh itoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2021
On future people, looking back at 21st century longtermismoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2021
Against neutrality about creating happy livesoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2021
Care and demandingnessoriginal ↗
7 Mar 2021
Subjectivism and moral authorityoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2021
Two types of deferenceoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2021
Contact with realityoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2021
Killing the antsoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2021
Believing in things you cannot seeoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2021
On clingingoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2021
Actually possible: thoughts on Utopiaoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2021
Shouldn’t it matter to the victim?original ↗
10 Jan 2021
The despair of normative realism botoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2021

2020

A ghostoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2020
Alienation and meta-ethics (or: is it possible you should maximize helium?)original ↗
20 Dec 2020
Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”original ↗
12 Dec 2020
Thoughts on being mortaloriginal ↗
6 Dec 2020
Grokking illusionismoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2020
The impact mergeoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2020
Thoughts on personal identityoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2020
How core is confusion about consciousness?original ↗
8 Nov 2020
To light a candleoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2020
The gestures of treesoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2020
Mistaking the plotoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2020
How much computational power does it take to match the human brain?original ↗
15 Sept 2020