Arden Kaler
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- 80,000 Hours2h 2m
Being provocative, advocacy, & the life you can save | Peter Singer (2019)
Peter Singer, Rob Woodland, Arden Kaler
Peter Singer employs a first-mover strategy to challenge philosophical taboos while steering the Effective Altruism movement away from exclusive long-termism toward immediate global poverty and animal welfare causes. As his normative ethics evolved from preference utilitarianism to hedonistic realism, he now advocates for a hybrid moral model that balances consequentialist duties with side constraints to address moral uncertainty. Furthermore, Singer advises against controversial immigration policies due to potential political backlash but maintains that immediate, tangible interventions remain more impactful than speculative existential risk mitigation.
- 80,000 Hours2h 38m
Epistemic systems & layers of defence against global catastrophes | Owen Cotton-Barratt (2020)
Owen Cotton-Barratt, Rob Wiblin, Arden Kaler
The Oxford Future of Humanity Institute is launching a fully funded, two-year Research Scholars Program designed to help early-career researchers explore existential risk topics without the pressure of immediate thesis production. This initiative coincides with the development of the "Defense in Depth" framework, which analyzes extinction risks across origin, scaling, and termination stages to justify investment in resilient, later-stage interventions. To support the broader community, the program also promotes a "Web of Virtues" strategy that prioritizes clarity, scope sensitivity, and cooperation as robust methods for navigating uncertainty and guiding future decision-making.
- 80,000 Hours2h 25m
Strong longtermism, Pascal's mugging, and whether existing is good for us | Hilary Greaves (2020)
Hilary Greaves, Rob Wiblin, Arden Kaler
A leading expert defines Strong Long-Termism as a framework requiring decision-makers to prioritize a narrow subset of actions with superior millennia-long consequences, establishing that this thesis holds robustly across diverse moral theories from prioritarianism to non-consequentialism. The presentation addresses complex epistemic challenges such as simple and complex cluelessness, alongside strategies for navigating moral uncertainty through expected choice worthiness to mitigate risks of fanatical reasoning. Concluding with an outlook on the field, the discussion highlights the Global Priorities Institute's strategic expansion into economic modeling and its plans to open postdoctoral positions aimed at advancing research in infinite ethics and long-run prediction.
- 80,000 Hours2h 12m
Forecasting & the drivers of AI progress | Danny Hernandez (2020)
Danny Hernandez, Rob Wiblin, Arden Kaler
OpenAI's Foresight team and associated experts analyzed the exponential 10x annual growth in AI compute since 2012 alongside multiplicative algorithmic efficiency gains to project how hardware constraints and research trends will shape future capabilities. The discussion emphasized that organizational success depends on fostering a culture of numerical forecasting and calibration training to reduce decision-making bias and resource misallocation. Furthermore, the event outlined viable non-traditional pathways for researchers to enter the field through targeted mentorship, while highlighting the critical need for government-supported compute access and policy expertise to prevent the fragmentation of the global AI ecosystem.