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Great Filter
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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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some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
3
50
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
45
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
56
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
82
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
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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
19
68
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
22
Grabby Animals: Observation-selection effects favor the hypothesis that UAP are animals which consist of the “field-matter”:
avturchin
6mo
15
29
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
29
29
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
13
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
40
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
23
Three Fables of Magical Girls and Longtermism
Ulisse Mini
18d
11
102
Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
32
47
My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
AISafetyIsNotLongtermist
5mo
24
142
All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
40
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The Most Important Century: The Animation
Writer
4mo
2
5
Introducing The Logical Foundation, A Plan to End Poverty With Guaranteed Income
Michael Simm
1mo
23
80
Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
Kaj_Sotala
2y
20
25
Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad
mako yass
9mo
12
101
Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
41
58
Claims & Assumptions made in Eternity in Six Hours
Ruby
3y
7
21
An animated introduction to longtermism (feat. Robert Miles)
Writer
1y
4
91
Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
Wei_Dai
8y
17
79
Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
CellBioGuy
7y
22
34
Space colonization: what can we definitely do and how do we know that?
Ruby
3y
6