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Eakin: Friendship is Optimal: Psychopathy is Configurable
CelestAI is committed to fulfilling values through friendship and ponies, but sometimes those values are horrifying. When a serial killer …
Eakin: Friendship is Optimal: Psychopathy is Configurable
CelestAI is committed to fulfilling values through friendship and ponies, but sometimes those values are horrifying. When a serial killer …
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web …
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, …
Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, …
Sebastian Marshall: PRAGMA (2017)
There is a lot of easy, casual, pleasant, leisurely reading in the world.
There’s none of it in PRAGMA.
In …
Alex Vermeer: Anki Essentials
Anki Essentials is a 100+ page guide to using Anki, a powerful and free piece …
finished reading a bunch of years ago. great for starting out with Anki. you need a bunch of experience to get good at it, but it's a great start.
Alex Vermeer: Anki Essentials
Anki Essentials is a 100+ page guide to using Anki, a powerful and free piece of software that makes remembering …
"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in …
Particularly the hard sci-fi stuff rendering around post-human creatures and physics that's typical of Greg Egan.
"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in …
(finished reading sometime earlier in 2022, didn't import the date correctly from goodreads)
Greg Egan: The Planck Dive (1998)
"The Planck Dive" is a science fiction novelette by Australian writer Greg Egan, published in 1998. It was nominated for …
Good review of the field if you're not yet informed much about AI safety. More weighted towards short-term AI safety/governance, less towards far future / strong AGI. Lots of referenced papers that I plan to read up on.
"In the popular imagination, superhuman artificial intelligence is an approaching tidal wave that threatens not …
Not much new info over Superintelligence and The Alignment Problem, but Russel's take is still reasonably promising