Course curriculum

    1. You're in!

    2. Advice on engaging with our content

    3. Getting the ball rolling

    1. Machines of exponential importance

    2. How to 10x your impact by choosing interventions carefully

    3. The probability distribution of impact is probably heavy-tailed

    4. Identifying pressing problems and the best solutions to them

    5. Multiple multipliers

    6. Effective altruism

    7. Life and death choices: moral mathematics in the driver’s seat

    8. Predicting the future with Bayes Theorem

    9. Farmer or librarian?

    10. Jamie’s (super?) forecast

    11. The big reveal: Bayes Theorem in all its glory

    12. Quick check

    13. Neema’s case: Putting numbers into action

    14. Neema’s case: Your answer

    15. Neema’s case walkthrough

    16. Waterfowl, waste-oil, wires, and willingness-to-pay

    17. Getting better at Bayes

    18. The moral menace of neglecting numbers

    19. Scope insensitivity: your guess

    20. Scope insensitivity: the results

    21. What % utilitarian are you? Ethical theories by the numbers

    22. Summing up

    23. Spencer Greenberg Q&A

    24. Further exploration

    1. Tough choices in warzones and disasters

    2. Key Terms: Cause areas, problems, and interventions

    3. Exploring landmark numbers on problem size

    4. A framework for prioritising pressing problems

    5. Shocking neglect

    6. Putting the framework into practice

    7. What did you think?

    8. You can quantify anything

    9. How to estimate anything

    10. Real decisions with real consequences

    11. Bus or bike?

    12. Saving 90 hours with a few minutes of maths

    13. From mundane to moral mathematics

    14. Quantifying Carefully

    15. Summing up

    16. Optional: Sanjay Joshi talk and Q&A

    17. Optional: Alex Barry Q&A

    18. Further exploration

    1. Your updated AI advisor

    2. Big Decisions

    3. What’s the price of a human life?

    4. Asking people how they want us to help them

    5. Helping the voiceless

    6. Weighing welfare across species

    7. Counting neurons to weigh welfare across species (activity)

    8. Don’t rely too much on neuron counts

    9. Species comparison in practice

    10. Predictions from the precipice: Climate modelling

    11. Expected value and probability theory

    12. Betting on big outcomes

    13. Exploring expectations

    14. Exploring expectations (activity)

    15. Summing up

    16. Annabella Wheatley talk and Q&A

    17. Further exploration

    1. Your updated AI advisor

    2. The long and short of it

    3. Machine learning and AI: maths at the forefront of emerging tech

    4. Linear regression and gradient descent

    5. What is a neural network?

    6. Maths that might destroy the world

    7. Maths that might save the world

    8. Pandemic preparedness and battling biorisk

    9. Manipulating materials and mathematical models for a flourishing future

    10. Mathematical modelling of pandemics

    11. The case for reducing existential risks

    12. Two kinds of lasting legacy

    13. Mistakes in the moral mathematics of existential risk

    14. Summing up

    15. Jack Parker Q&A

    16. Noah Siegel talk and Q&A

    17. Further exploration

    1. Your updated AI advisor

    2. A simple formula for career impact

    3. A simple formula for career impact (Activity)

    4. Career deliberations: Key terms and concepts

    5. The best learning is targeted learning

    6. The best learning is targeted learning (Activity)

    7. Why study maths?

    8. Funnel vision, not tunnel vision

    9. Casting a wide net

    10. AIM high, DIY

    11. Plenty of paths to impact

    12. Multiply your income to maximise your impact?

    13. Careers beyond finance & quant trading

    14. Do you want to commit to this?

    15. There's more than one STEM subject

    16. Degrees that set you up for high-impact careers

    17. Considering relevant degrees (Survey)

    18. Making your degree research impactful

    19. Degrees and careers that capitalise on your strengths

    20. Making watertight plans

    21. Your next steps on the path to impact

    22. Your priority area to look into

    23. Congratulations!

    24. Vicky Cox talk and Q&A

    25. Jessica Wen Q&A

    26. Further exploration

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