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Posts
Moral seriousness and cooperation
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Andres Gomez Emilsson writes:
On doing good vs fighting bad
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What if the best way to get to end all suffering is by getting the privileged to realize that there is infinite Good for everyone, see through silly games and thus make civilization much more effective at redistribution?
Your tribe defines your impact
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Nora and I wrote up our thoughts on the importance of and models for collectively engineering your social circles for positive sum games: “The role of tribes in achieving lasting impact and how to create them” on the EA Forum.
Sustainability and growth
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Our World in Data has created two great posts this year, highlighting how the often proposed dichotomy between economic growth & sustainability is false.
Harari could take away other lessons from COVID
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I am somewhat disappointed by Yuval Noah Harari’s Lessons from a year of Covid. He says many great things in the article but furthers a weird misconception of political decision-making.
Why I like people with opinions
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Or: Are more opinions and stronger selection pressure strictly superior?
Notes on IQ, creativity and success
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Last updated: 2020-10-26
Notes on “none of my business”
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A collection of unfiltered Sunday morning thoughts after a discussion with friends on a difficult relationship. Might make something out of this at a later stage.
Linguistic paradigms
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How to use language intelligently? Why to use language intelligently? I think most people should think more about our most valuable tool for coordination.
Against ambiguity
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[Epistemic status: mostly just personal preferences, need to think more about this]
My favorite podcasts
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This list was compiled purely based on my personal enjoyment. Topics correlate strongly with current interests: epistemology, rationality, artificial intelligence, consciousness, sexuality, neuroscience, morality, and (the future of our) civilization.
portfolio
A Computational Turn in Policy Process Studies: Coevolving Network Dynamics of Policy Change
Max and Isaak finished up a big chunk of thinking we did prior to founding SI. 
A Very Short Guide to Decision-making on Wicked Problems
Max and I wrote this guide, I edited & layouted it. It’s quite a neat overview of the state-of-the-art in decision science. 
Effective Altruism Switzerland
Max and I started EA Geneva which grew into a national association helping people do better with their $ and careers. 
Policymaking for the Long-term Future: Improving Institutional Fit
Friends and I wrote a thing which more things to come will build up on. It’s worth a look imho 
Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
My second nonprofit endeavour to improve civilizational resilience through public policy 
Web design
I like to layout things, so I designed our websites (with help of actual developers). 
publications
Paper Title Number 1
Published in Journal 1, 2009
This paper is about the number 1. The number 2 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2009). "Paper Title Number 1." Journal 1. 1(1). http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper1.pdf
Paper Title Number 2
Published in Journal 1, 2010
This paper is about the number 2. The number 3 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2010). "Paper Title Number 2." Journal 1. 1(2). http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper2.pdf
Paper Title Number 3
Published in Journal 1, 2015
This paper is about the number 3. The number 4 is left for future work.
Recommended citation: Your Name, You. (2015). "Paper Title Number 3." Journal 1. 1(3). http://academicpages.github.io/files/paper3.pdf
talks
Shut up or share? Three steps to combat misinformation
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I talk about our well of common knowledge and how we can maintain it. Also about: cognitive biases, vaccine scepticism, pandemic preparedness, probabilistic thinking, and global priorities. It’s a bit too much for 17 minutes and I was quite nervous. Watch it here.
Longtermism - survival and flourishing in an uncertain world (French)
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Unfortunately, the organizers didn’t manage to get me an original recording of this introduction to longtermism. So here’s the French-interpreted version. I start at 1:35:07.
Creating a voice for future generations in the multilateral system
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I give a first glimpse of how one might be able reduce existential risk via the UN system. Spoiler: it’s mainly via international narratives and norms that affect national policymaking.
teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.
Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
This is a description of a teaching experience. You can use markdown like any other post.