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Blog

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My blog, Reflective Altruism, uses academic research to drive positive change within and around the effective altruism movement. 

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Podcasts and interviews

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Business Talk (January 2025)

The Gradient (May 2024)

Vanderbilt Philosophy Faculty Interviews (April 2024)

Critiques of EA (April 2023)
Blog of the APA (October 2020)

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Press releases, etc.

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Vanderbilt University expertfile, "Arguments against the singularity - and what we should worry about instead" (June 2024)

Vanderbilt research news, "Vanderbilt philoisopher says optimism about existential risk is central to reducing" it (September 2023)

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Getting in touch

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I'm generally excited to speak to public audiences about my work. I am most excited to speak about questions related to my academic research on bounded rationality, longtermism, and the philosophy of artificial intelligence. You can reach me at david.thorstad@vanderbilt.edu.