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David Thorstad: Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Longtermism

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Why theories of human rationality should account for boundedness, heuristics, and other cognitive limitations why EA epistemics suck (ok, it’s a little more nuanced than that) Professor Thorstad is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, a Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford, and a Research Affiliate at the MINT Lab at Australian National University. One strand of his research asks how cognitively limited agents should decide what to do and believe. A second strand asks how altruists should use limited funds to do good effectively. Reach me at editor@thegradient.pub for feedback, ideas, guest suggestions. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast:  Apple Podcasts  | Spotify | Pocket Casts | RSS Follow The Gradient on Twitter Upgrade to paid Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:15) David’s interest in rationality (02:45) David’s crisis of confidence, models abstracted from psychology (05:00) Blending formal models with studies of the mind (06:25)

I spoke with Professor David Thorstad about: The practical difficulties of doing interdisciplinary work Why theories of human rationality should account for boundedness, heuristics, and other cognitive limitations why EA epistemics suck (ok, it’s a little more nuanced than that) Professor Thorstad is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, a Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford, and a Research Affiliate at the MINT Lab at Australian National University. One strand of his research asks how cognitively limited agents should decide…

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