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Anthropics
Sleeping Beauty Paradox
Space Exploration & Colonization
Paradoxes
Great Filter
Simulation Hypothesis
Pascal's Mugging
Extraterrestrial Life
Longtermism
Grabby Aliens
Infinities In Ethics
Chemistry
137 posts
Existential Risk
Academic Papers
Biosecurity
170
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
164
Semantic Stopsigns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
111
146
The Hero With A Thousand Chances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
171
141
My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
138
All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
40
137
Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
41
124
On infinite ethics
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
68
119
If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...
ata
12y
28
99
Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
353
86
Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
Kaj_Sotala
2y
20
86
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
84
Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
32
82
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
80
Moore's Paradox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
25
233
A Quick Guide to Confronting Doom
Ruby
8mo
36
219
Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety
Andrew_Critch
2y
40
205
On saving one's world
Rob Bensinger
7mo
5
185
2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Larks
12mo
26
150
Intergenerational trauma impeding cooperative existential safety efforts
Andrew_Critch
6mo
28
124
Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory
jefftk
6mo
4
98
"Taking AI Risk Seriously" (thoughts by Critch)
Raemon
4y
68
93
Jaan Tallinn's 2020 Philanthropy Overview
jaan
1y
4
88
In defense of flailing, with foreword by Bill Burr
lc
6mo
8
86
Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4y
6
84
Resources I send to AI researchers about AI safety
Vael Gates
6mo
12
68
Far-UVC Light Update: No, LEDs are not around the corner (tweetstorm)
Davidmanheim
1mo
27
68
Jaan Tallinn's Philanthropic Pledge
jaan
2y
1
58
How can I reduce existential risk from AI?
lukeprog
10y
92