“Leadership change at the Center on Long-Term Risk” by JesseClifton, Tristan Cook, Mia_Taylor

The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) does research and community building aimed at reducing s-risk.

Jesse Clifton is stepping down as CLR's Executive Director. He’ll be succeeded by Tristan Cook as Managing Director and Mia Taylor as Interim Research Director. [1]

Statement from Jesse

Over the past year or so, I’ve become increasingly convinced by arguments that we are clueless about the sign (in terms of expected total suffering reduced) of interventions aimed at reducing s-risk. (And I think it's plausible that we should consider ourselves clueless about interventions aimed at improved expected total welfare, generally.) The other researchers on CLR's Conceptual Research team[2] have come to a similar view,[3] but not the other staff or the board, who are still positive on the pre-cluelessness priorities.

Given this, I don’t think it makes sense for me to lead CLR. So, for now, I’ll be transitioning to working [...]

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Outline:

(00:25) Statement from Jesse

(03:06) Statement from Mia and Tristan

The original text contained 6 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
January 31st, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YE3tdpE6JdiWRqqKx/leadership-change-at-the-center-on-long-term-risk

Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.