Course curriculum

    1. You're in!

    2. Advice on engaging with our content

    3. A Leaf AI advisor?

    4. 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. Getting Better at Bayes

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

    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. Using LLMs for CEAs

    15. Quantifying Carefully

    16. Summing up

    17. Optional: Sanjay Joshi talk and Q&A

    18. Optional: Alex Barry Q&A

    19. Further exploration

    1. Big Decisions

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

    3. Asking people how they want us to help them

    4. Helping the voiceless

    5. Weighing welfare across species

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

    7. Don’t rely too much on neuron counts

    8. Species comparison in practice

    9. Predictions from the precipice: Climate modelling

    10. Expected value and probability theory

    11. Betting on big outcomes

    12. Exploring expectations

    13. Exploring expectations (activity)

    14. Summing up

    15. Annabella Wheatley talk and Q&A

    16. Further exploration

    1. The long and short of it

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

    3. Linear regression and gradient descent

    4. What is a neural network?

    5. Maths that might destroy the world

    6. Maths that might save the world

    7. Pandemic preparedness and battling biorisk

    8. Manipulating materials and mathematical models for a flourishing future

    9. Mathematical modelling of pandemics

    10. The case for reducing existential risks

    11. Two kinds of lasting legacy

    12. Mistakes in the moral mathematics of existential risk

    13. Summing up

    14. Jack Parker Q&A

    15. Noah Siegel talk and Q&A

    16. Further exploration

    1. A simple formula for career impact

    2. A simple formula for career impact (Activity)

    3. Career deliberations: Key terms and concepts

    4. The best learning is targeted learning

    5. The best learning is targeted learning (Activity)

    6. Why study maths?

    7. Funnel vision, not tunnel vision

    8. Casting a wide net

    9. AIM high, DIY

    10. Plenty of paths to impact

    11. Multiply your income to maximise your impact?

    12. Careers beyond finance & quant trading

    13. Do you want to commit to this?

    14. There's more than one STEM subject

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

    16. Considering relevant degrees (Survey)

    17. Making your degree research impactful

    18. Degrees and careers that capitalise on your strengths

    19. Making watertight plans

    20. Your next steps on the path to impact

    21. Your priority area to look into

    22. Support Leaf?

    23. Congratulations!

    24. Vicky Cox talk and Q&A

    25. Jessica Wen Q&A

    26. Further exploration

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