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The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
141
My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
86
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
82
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
67
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
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
Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
28
42
UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
92
42
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
41
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
29
40
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
35
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
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
84
Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
32
75
My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
AISafetyIsNotLongtermist
5mo
24
65
Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
Wei_Dai
8y
17
55
To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast
Stuart_Armstrong
9y
50
55
The Most Important Century: The Animation
Writer
4mo
2
43
Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
CellBioGuy
7y
22
42
A Proposed Adjustment to the Astronomical Waste Argument
Nick_Beckstead
9y
38
38
Claims & Assumptions made in Eternity in Six Hours
Ruby
3y
7
35
Three Fables of Magical Girls and Longtermism
Ulisse Mini
18d
11
31
Grabby Aliens could be Good, could be Bad
mako yass
9mo
12
30
Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox
Lanrian
3y
5