Dominic Roser

www.amazon.de/Besser-um-di...

Ab heute ist unser Buch erhältlich! In 20 Häppchen von 5 Seiten nehmen wir bekannte Slogans aus der Klima-Debatte philosophisch unter die Lupe. Wir zeigen: Es ist noch nicht alles Wichtige gesagt -- sorgfältiges Nachdenken kann weiterhin Überraschendes und vor allem auch Hilfreiches zutage fördern!

Please, growth fans & degrowth fans!

Give me your best arguments against the "as well" in this claim: "Yes, growth promotes innovation - but growth per se might *as well* promote innovation in dirty tech as in clean tech"

PS: Readings/links help, too

An online summer school (30 June - 4 July) for students across the world on the theme of Solidarity --- run by my friend Jakub Synowiec

solidarity.upjp2.edu.pl/en/

Next Tuesday (20 May) in Fribourg: Talk on AI Ethics. Everyone welcome!

Effektiv Spenden | Klimawandel – Eine christliche Perspektive Ein ausführlicher Klimabericht von der Organisation Christians for Impact, der die Frage beantwortet warum Christinnen sich für den Klimawandel einsetzen sollten und wie sie dies am Besten tun können.

Was hilft denn dem Klima *wirklich*?

Der "Christians For Impact" Report von Shilpita und mir ist jetzt auch auf deutsch verfügbar.

Der grüne Mainstream verpasst m.E. einige wichtige Tipps. Wir versuchen sie fundiert auf den Punkt zu bringen.

effektiv-spenden.org/blog/bericht...

oh, ganz herzlichen Dank!

What saved the sperm whales? Some say new technology (fossil fuels), others say government regulation.

Helpful stance & overview of the debate!

www.breakthroughjournal.org/p/how-fossil...

Thank you, @focusmate.bsky.social, for making my life so much better over the past years! #5000sessions

The Most Dangerous Time in AI Policy If the deployment of human-level AI systems disrupts our political institutions, we won't be prepared for further progress.

Sober, but well-argued and helpful...

An ASI future is hard to plan for now. But: if we do ever plan for it, it will be during an AGI time -- and we can work now towards giving *this* time a political environment that is conducive to sound choices.

writing.antonleicht.me/p/the-most-d...

PS: And these efforts come naturally to me. They're not deliberate or motivated by theoretical commitments -- I assume this comes intuitively to most parents?

It's mindboggling to become a father as a political philosopher: I find myself trying so hard to replace my kids' deontological takes with a focus on the common good (in particular: exorcising their radical egalitarianism for the sake of smth like @rychappell.bsky.social's beneficentrism).

Gesucht: Schweizer Schienennetz inkl. Kantonsgrenzen.

Weder Google noch KI konnte mir helfen, eine Schweizer Karte zu finden, die übersichtlich Schienennetz+Kantonsgrenzen darstellt. Kann mir jemand helfen?

Wir wollen im Frühling in 10 Tagen alle 26 Kantone besuchen & müssen eine Route entwerfen.

25.2.4 Umweltethik: Was der «No Impact Man» von Zachäus lernen kann

Ein Beitrag für den christlichen Blog "Insist Forum":

"Colin Beavan...hatte eine Vision: Ein Jahr ohne Umweltschaden!...Kein Abfall, kein Auto, kein Lift.
Seine Radikalität war grossartig. Aber: sie war unbalanciert."

www.insist-consulting.ch/forum-integr...

2-year old son: "The scooter is hurt"
Me: "A scooter can't be hurt -- I think"

Wait what -- did I just add "I think"?!

I must've been brainwashed too hard by all these plant sentience, digital minds, consciousness-emerging-out-of-complexity discussions etc.

n this note, a fitting two paragraphs by Nate Silver:

www.natesilver.net/p/its-time-t...

It's astonishing that the chair (one of the top three AI researchers) felt the need to precede this report by an update -- less than two months (!!) after the end of the writing period. Too much has happened in the meantime.

🙏🙏🙏

Great way to put it

I agree!
Though it just feels odd to tell people "this is so big, this is so urgent" and then have hardly any tangible steps on offer which ppl could take

[AI catastrophic risk explainer for normal people]

Which short explainer currently most compellingly makes the case for taking AI safety very seriously?

(PS: Optimally, the explainer would add 2-3 ideas for action steps that normal people can take if they become convinced)

President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN) YouTube video by C-SPAN

"May God continue to shed his grace on the United States of America"

A prayer for our times

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN05...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Bicycle Kick 🦁😈#football #legend #zlatan #sweden YouTube video by Messi

Also, can we pls have this kind of goalgetter instinct in the liberation fight from poverty

www.youtube.com/shorts/TA05I...

That's the kind of male energy I'd like to see in the world

“If I could, I would write every single name on my body. But there are 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today ... So whenever you hear my name, you will think of their names. Whenever you see me, you will see them.”

Die @republik.ch hat ein cooles Format, in dem Kinder, Fachpersonenen, etc eine Expertin ausfragen dürfen. Ich war eine der Personen, die @ethzurich.bsky.social-Klimaforscherin Ulrike Lohmann zu Klima-Interventionen wie künstlichen Wolken befragen durfte 👇

This is an insanely big-hearted oped from the dad of a kid with a rare pediatric cancer who must be going through an unimaginably difficult experience www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/...

Interview with Jack & me below

Climate activist @luisaneubauer.bsky.social said: "I don’t think it’s a particularly radical demand to ask governments to keep their promises" ---> In our article, we ask whether it's *really* such a big issue if govrnments do less (or more!) than they said they would

Thanks for the valuable pointer (including your assessment).

And yes, it really is a challenge to find criticisms that really "get" EA (and also criticisms that aren't so -- in my view -- obviously off the mark that it's hard to engage with them)

Thanks!

Thanks for this, Tristan -- very helpful