Michael Nielsen

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Essays and working notes by Michael Nielsen on existential risk, metascience, tools for thought, and the relationship between science, art, and religion.

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Notes on Effective Altruism

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Long and rough notes on Effective Altruism (EA). Written to help me get to the bottom of several questions: what do I like and think is important about EA? Why do I find the mindset so foreign? Why am I not an EA? And to start me thinking about: what do alternatives to EA look like? The notes are not aimed at…