EA - What should I ask Joe Carlsmith — Open Phil researcher, philosopher and blogger? by Robert Wiblin

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What should I ask Joe Carlsmith — Open Phil researcher, philosopher and blogger?, published by Robert Wiblin on November 9, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Next week for The 80,000 Hours Podcast I'll be interviewing Joe Carlsmith, Senior Research Analyst at Open Philanthropy.Joe's did a BPhil in philosophy at Oxford University and is a prolific writer on topics both philosophical and practical (until recently his blog was called 'Hands and Cities' but it's all now collected on his personal site.What should I ask him?Some things Joe has written which we could talk about include:Is Power-Seeking AI an Existential Risk?Actually possible: thoughts on UtopiaOn infinite ethics —XIV. The death of a utilitarian dreamAnthropics: Learning from the fact that you existAgainst neutrality about creating happy livesWholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”On clingingCan you control the past?Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.