Crossposted from Twitter with Eliezer's permission i. A common claim among e/accs is that, since the solar system is big, Earth will be left alone by superintelligences. A simple rejoinder is that jus

I guess life makes sense: For some reason there’s a universe and that universe has lots of atoms bouncing around and sometimes they bounce into patterns that copy themselves and then those patterns go

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In the fields of user experience and accessibility, everyone talks about the curb cut effect: Features that are added as accommodations for people with disabilities sometimes become widely useful and

Midjourney, “Fourth Industrial Revolution Digital Transformation” This is a little rant I like to give, because it’s something I learned on the job that I’ve never seen written up explicitly. There are a bunch of buzzwords floating around regarding computer technology in an industrial or…

People thinking about the future of AI sometimes talk about a single project ‘getting there first’ — achieving AGI, and leveraging this into a decisive strategic advantage over the rest of the world.