CarlShulman comments on Why I'm Skeptical About Unproven Causes (And You Should Be Too) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CarlShulman 03 August 2013 05:02:06AM 2 points [-]

GiveWell and Peter Singer are two huge players in the EA community, each with larger communities than LW (by my estimate), and they haven't publicly advocated x-risk reduction.

GiveWell is doing shallow analyses of catastrophic risks, and Peter Singer has written favorably on reducing x-risk, although not endorsing particular charities or interventions, and it's not a regular theme in his presentations.

Comment author: lukeprog 03 August 2013 07:56:10AM 1 point [-]

Thanks, I didn't know about the Singer article.