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The first future and the best future
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
It seems to me worth trying to slow down AI development to steer successfully around the shoals of extinction and out to utopia.
But I was thinking lately: even if I didn’t think there was any chance of extinction risk, it might still be worth prioritizing a lot of care over moving at maximal speed. Because there are many different possible AI futures,…
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Experiment on repeating choices
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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Mid-conditional love
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
People talk about unconditional love and conditional love. Maybe I’m out of the loop regarding the great loves going on around me, but my guess is that love is extremely rarely unconditional. Or at least if it is, then it is either very broadly applied or somewhat confused or strange: if you love me unconditionally, presumably you love everything else as…
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Partial value takeover without world takeover
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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New social credit formalizations
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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Movie posters
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Are we so good to simulate?
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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Shaming with and without naming
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
Suppose someone wrongs you and you want to emphatically mar their reputation, but only insofar as doing so is conducive to the best utilitarian outcomes. I was thinking about this one time and it occurred to me that there are at least two fairly different routes to positive utilitarian outcomes from publicly shaming people for apparent wrongdoings*:
A)…
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Deep and obvious points in the gap between your thoughts and your pictures of thought
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
Some [ideas](https://worldspiritsockpuppet.substack.com/p/bodega-bay-workshop-18-11-26) feel either deep or extremely obvious. You’ve heard some trite truism your whole life, then one day an epiphany lands and you try to save it with words, and you realize the description is that truism. And then you go out and try to tell others what you saw, and you…
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Shaming with and without naming
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
Suppose someone wrongs you and you want to emphatically mar their reputation, but only insofar as doing so is conducive to the best utilitarian outcomes. I was thinking about this one time and it occurred to me that there are at least two fairly different routes to positive utilitarian outcomes from publicly shaming people for apparent wrongdoings*:
A)…
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I put odds on ends with Nathan Young
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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Parasocial relationship logic
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Survey of 2,778 AI authors: six parts in pictures
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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Robin Hanson and I talk about AI risk
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
From this afternoon: here
Our previous recorded discussions are here.
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Have we really foresaken natural selection?
Have we really foresaken natural selection?
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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We don’t trade with ants
We don’t trade with ants
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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Pacing: inexplicably good
Crossposted from world spirit sock puppet.
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