Michael Dickens

Michael Dickens is an independent researcher focused on effective altruism topics, including cause prioritization, investment strategy for altruistic donors, AI safety, and quantitative ethics. He previously worked as a software developer at Affirm and became involved in the EA community through Stanford Effective Altruism (then called Stanford THINK) in 2012. He maintains a personal blog called Philosophical Multicore (mdickens.me) where he publishes research and analysis on topics he considers important, tractable, and interesting. In 2020, he received a $33,000 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to conduct independent research on cause prioritization, with a particular focus on investment strategies for effective altruists and the question of whether to give now or save and donate later. He has published influential posts on quantitative cause selection models on the EA Forum and has written extensively on AI safety strategy, moral circle expansion, and empirical approaches to prioritization. He also does consulting work for nonprofits.

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