I’ve recently started supporting GiveWell, you can find them on givewell.net, because they’re doing something that I’m sure you would support: they’re trying to get aid organizations to demonstrate their efficacy, to be more transparent about why they support some projects rather than others, and to show how much it costs for them to achieve their goals, whether those goals are saving lives or lifting people out of poverty. And so it’s kind of at a meta level, saying I want to improve aid by helping organizations that are trying to do that. I think that’s a really highly leveraged way of making an impact on what’s going to happen in aid over the next couple of decades.
This made me wonder if he knows about existential risks. This page (2007) does suggest that he is aware of existential risks:
I would also include the issue of what Nick Bostrom calls ”existential risks” – how should we act in regard to risks, even very small ones, to the future existence of the entire human species? Arguably, all other issues pale into insignificance when we consider the risk of extinction of our species,
This made me wonder if he knows about existential risks. This page (2007) does suggest that he is aware of existential risks:
I think it’s safe to say that he knows about existential risks.