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Comment author: jkaufman 02 November 2013 02:40:06PM *  3 points [-]

most of FHI is Swedish is another evidence in itself

  • Nick Bostrom, Director: Swedish
  • Stuart Armstrong, James Martin Research Fellow: English, I think
  • Nick Beckstead, Research Fellow: American
  • Daniel Dewey, Alexander Tamas Research Fellow: American
  • Carl Frey, James Martin Research Fellow: not sure EDIT: Swedish
  • Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, James Martin Academic Project Manager: Irish, I think
  • Vincent Müller, James Martin Research Fellow: German
  • Toby Ord, James Martin Research Fellow: Australian
  • Anders Sandberg, James Martin Research Fellow: Swedish
  • Milan Cirkovic, Research Associate: Serbian
  • Robin Hanson, Research Associate: American
  • Guy Kahane, Research Associate: maybe Israeli?
  • Carl Shulman, Research Associate: American, I think EDIT: Canadian

I count two Swedes, though I'm not that solid on some of these people's nationalities; quick searches can be misleading.

Some said they were really surprised when they left Sweden with the existence of non-consequentialist people.

Most transhumanists are consequentialist, but so are lots of people. In fact the only people I've met who argue "as a society we should do X even though it has worse outcomes" are philosophers.

Comment author: Alicorn 02 November 2013 05:30:22PM 2 points [-]

Carl Shulman is from Canada.

Comment author: diegocaleiro 02 November 2013 09:50:49PM 2 points [-]

The obvious country that seems left away but is compatible with Joao's goals is Canada. Maybe a little more probability mass should be assigned to the other non-Sweden Scandinavian countries. I would probably swich the interest in Germany into Finland, Denmark, and even Reikjavic, the only sufficiently populated part of Iceland.

Comment author: joaolkf 02 November 2013 10:51:55PM 0 points [-]

Canada requires GRE, but they do have some Uehiro-analogues there. The problem with other non-Sweden Scandinavian countries is that I do not know many people there which could guide me through finding good Professors. Kaj already said he doesn't know anyone in Finland. But I ought to check that anyway, I will give it a run through their websites and ask around. If you know relevant people there, PM me.

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