Archive - Carter's Substack

Extremely Obvious Thoughts I Had in Late November 2024

hedons, mormonism, and sad game theory

Dec 6, 2024 •

September 2024

In Defense of Unrepresentative Samples

kind of racist of you to assume stuff won't generalize to minorities

Sep 17, 2024 •

July 2024

Can AI persuade us that it deserves moral concern?

In an online study (N = 400 nationally representative US participants), we investigated how much moral concern people grant to digital beings and…

Published on Outpaced • Jul 29, 2024

June 2024

A Research Agenda for Psychology and AI

I wrote this research agenda as part of BlueDot Impact’s AI Alignment Fundamentals course, where it won the 2nd place prize for best AI Strategy…

Jun 29, 2024 •

November 2023

Five Anthropics Thought Experiments

Are we probably in the middle of humanity?

Nov 26, 2023 •

May 2023

Specialization and Giving to Charity

Cross-posted from the EA Forum. I’m not sure about the following idea — please send me counterarguments! Not a super fun thing that the following…

May 27, 2023 •

January 2023

Exploiting Newcomb's Game Show

Cross-posted from LessWrong. Suppose you regularly watch a popular TV show where contestants play a game just like Newcomb's Problem - before each…

Jan 25, 2023 •

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