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Intelligence Dissolves Privacy
The future is going to be different from the present. Let's think about how. Specifically, our expectations about what's reasonable are downstream of our past…
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The Terrarium
System: You are an AI agent in the Terrarium, a self-contained “society” of AIs. The purpose of the Terrarium is to solve open mathematical problems…
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Do not conquer what you cannot defend
Epistemic status: All of the western canon must eventually be re-invented in a LessWrong post. So today we are re-inventing federalism. Once upon a time…
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Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them
Here are two beliefs that are sort of haunting me right now: Folk who try to push people to uphold principles (whether established ones or…
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Current AIs seem pretty misaligned to me
Many people—especially AI company employees [1] —believe current AI systems are well-aligned in the sense of genuinely trying to do what they're supposed to do…
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Morale
One particularly pernicious condition is low morale. Morale is, roughly, "the belief that if you work hard, your conditions will improve." If your morale is…
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Socrates is Mortal
There is a scene in Plato that contains, in miniature, the catastrophe of Athenian public life. Two men meet at a courthouse. One is there…
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The Practical Guide to Superbabies
It’s Summer of 2025. I’m standing in a grass covered field on the longest day of the year. A friend of mine walks towards me,…
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Some things I noticed while LARPing as a grantmaker
Written to a new grantmaker. The first three points are the most important. Focus on opportunities many times your bar. Most value comes from finding/creating…
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Gyre
! 30s Heartbeat trigger. Read heartbeat instructions in /mnt/mission/HEARTBEAT.md and continue. .oO Thinking... Heartbeat triggered? Ok. Ok. Why am I nervous? Don't be nervous. →…