Join us to discus the importance of understanding heavy-tailed distributions, and the consequences for decision-making and determining priorities.
Please read the following to prepare for the discussion:
Heavy-Tails and Altruism: When Your Intuition Fails You by Jan Michelfeit (11min read)
On Fat-Tailed Distributions and Suffering-Risks by Magnus Vinding for the Center for Reducing Suffering (10min read)
All Moral Decision in Life are on a Heavy-Tailed Distribution by Max Görlitz on the EA Forum (2min read)
Unravelling the Mystery of Distributions of Impact by Michael and SoGive on the EA Forum (5min read)
*Optional* The Zipf Mystery by VSauce (21min watch)
Join the discussion on Tuesday, February 4th from 6PM to 7PM in room M3-17A of the McLennan Library.