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Anthropics
Sleeping Beauty Paradox
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Infinities In Ethics
Infinity
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Space Exploration & Colonization
Great Filter
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Extraterrestrial Life
Longtermism
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Astronomy
Astrobiology
Mind Crime
164
Semantic Stopsigns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
111
146
The Hero With A Thousand Chances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
171
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
80
Moore's Paradox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
25
68
The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption
paulfchristiano
11y
45
63
The Anthropic Trilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
233
56
The Anthropic Principle: Five Short Examples
Optimization Process
5y
13
55
Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
406
52
The Lifespan Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
220
52
Anthropic signature: strange anti-correlations
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
25
49
The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
128
46
Anthropics and the Universal Distribution
Joe Carlsmith
1y
11
170
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
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
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
75
My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
AISafetyIsNotLongtermist
5mo
24
67
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
65
Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
Wei_Dai
8y
17
64
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
62
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
34
55
To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast
Stuart_Armstrong
9y
50