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Great Filter
Simulation Hypothesis
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SETI
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52 posts
Space Exploration & Colonization
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Astronomy
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Eschatology
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Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
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Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
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How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
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some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
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Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
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Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
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Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
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Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
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Jeff Shainline thinks that there is too much serendipity in the physics of optical/superconducting computing, suggesting that they were part of the criteria of Cosmological Natural Selection, which could have some fairly lovecraftian implications
mako yass
8mo
3
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Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
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Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:
avturchin
6mo
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I just watched the Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs). Here's a succinct summary and commentary + some background
mako yass
7mo
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Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
4mo
3
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Three Fables of Magical Girls and Longtermism
Ulisse Mini
18d
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Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
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Introducing The Logical Foundation, A Plan to End Poverty With Guaranteed Income
Michael Simm
1mo
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My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
AISafetyIsNotLongtermist
5mo
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The Most Important Century: The Animation
Writer
4mo
2
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All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
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Perfect Enemy
Alex Beyman
2mo
0
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Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad
mako yass
9mo
12
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Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
Kaj_Sotala
2y
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137
Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
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Emily Brontë on: Psychology Required for Serious™ AGI Safety Research
robertzk
3mo
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A terrifying variant of Boltzmann's brains problem
Zeruel017
6mo
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Steer the Sun?
Shay
7mo
7
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An animated introduction to longtermism (feat. Robert Miles)
Writer
1y
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