Differential intellectual progress

• Differential Intellectual Progress as a Positive-Sum Project - Foundational Research Institute (takes a broader approach than just AI risk)
• Differential intellectual progress on LW wiki (focuses on AI risk)
• http://www.existential-risk.org/figure5.png? (see this comment for more info; also find where Bostrom talks about this)

• On Progress and Prosperity by Paul Christiano. In a comment Helen Toner identifies the following areas in terms of differential progress:

  • The Good Judgement Project
  • Political lobbying to promote regulation of biotech & nanotech research, a la CEA’s/FHI’s Global Priorities Project
  • AI safety research
  • Animal rights activism (where the emphasis is on values shift/expanding circles)

• In general the importance of focusing on the social sciences over the hard sciences is a point raised by both Brian Tomasik and Paul Christiano

Differential intellectual progress is also one way to look at causes; i.e. one can ask the question of “Does this cause increase or decrease risk?”