William_MacAskill

karma rank #18 · 11,615 karma · 10 posts sampled · profile ↗

Top cause areas

ea meta 5.5 +0.0σ
longtermism xrisk 4.8 +1.1σ
prioritization 3.8 +0.5σ
effective giving 3.5 +0.6σ
Show all 15 cause areas
ai governance 3.4 +2.3σ
ai safety 3.2 +1.2σ
moral circle values 2.7 +1.0σ
forecasting epistemics 2.3 +0.3σ
rationalist meta 2.3 +0.7σ
global health 1.7 +0.3σ
biosecurity 1.0 +0.9σ
mental health 0.5 -0.1σ
animal welfare 0.4 -0.4σ
nuclear great power 0.3 -0.2σ
climate 0.2 +0.2σ

Distinguishing dimensions z-score vs top-30 cohort

▲ cause_ai_governance +2.3σ
▲ style_speculative +1.8σ
▲ cause_ai_safety +1.2σ
▼ tone_humility -0.8σ
▼ stance_suffering_focused -0.7σ

Style quantitative / empirical / philosophical / speculative / operational / contrarian

quantitative 4.0 -0.0σ
empirical 3.9 +0.1σ
philosophical 5.2 +1.1σ
speculative 6.1 +1.8σ
operational howto 4.1 -0.4σ
critical contrarian 4.8 +0.8σ
Show all 9 style dims
personal narrative 2.5 +0.1σ
synthesizing 6.1 +0.7σ
question asking 2.0 -0.7σ

Stance signature top 3 stance dims furthest from neutral (5)

inside ea 8.4 +0.7σ
longtermist framing 7.1 +1.0σ
ea org coded 7.0 +0.3σ
Show all 9 stance dims
rationalist coded 6.0 +0.7σ
optimism ea institutions 5.9 +0.0σ
ai doom axis 5.7 +1.0σ
animal moral status 5.5 +0.1σ
welfarist vs rights 5.5 +0.2σ
suffering focused 4.8 -0.7σ

Tone

combativeness 2.3 +0.9σ
calibration 6.4 +0.1σ
jargon 5.8 +0.9σ
humility 5.4 -0.8σ

Quality

rigor 6.5 +0.3σ
originality 6.4 +0.8σ
clarity 8.1 -0.0σ

Neighbors in dimension space

Nearest: Larks

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Most characteristic post

Goodmaxxing

baseScore: 69

(Crosspost). If you’re young and online, you’re probably maxxing something. Maybe you’re looksmaxxing: trying to maximize your hotness (e.g. by hitting yourself in the face with a hammer). Maybe, like Clavicular, you do it just to mog other people—to look better than they do. But good looks reach diminishing marginal returns. You get a reasonable boost from going to the gym occasionally, but by the time you’re smashing yourself in the face with a hammer nightly, the additiona…

Highest-karma post in sample

Goodmaxxing

baseScore: 69