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Extraterrestrial Life
Chemistry
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Simulation Hypothesis
Mind Crime
42
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
40
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
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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
28
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
23
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
23
Weird question: could we see distant aliens?
paulfchristiano
4y
78
18
Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search
turchin
9y
99
15
Annihilating aliens & Rare Earth suggest early filter
rk
4y
10
13
Anthropics and Fermi: grabby, visible, zoo-keeping, and early aliens
Stuart_Armstrong
1y
1
12
[Paper] The Global Catastrophic Risks of the Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI
avturchin
4y
2
11
Alien neuropunk slaver civilizations
D_Malik
7y
18
10
What is the best chemistry textbook?
Maxwell Peterson
1y
8
10
For fiction: How could alien minds differ from human minds?
Solvent
11y
67
9
Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis
avturchin
1y
5
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The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
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Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
35
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
32
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
24
What would convince you you'd won the lottery?
Stuart_Armstrong
5y
11
21
[Link] Does a Simulation Really Need to Be Run?
VincentYu
11y
17
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The Simulation Epiphany Problem
Koen.Holtman
3y
13
18
Are you in a Boltzmann simulation?
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
29
14
some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
3
12
Simulation Typology and Termination Risks
avturchin
3y
0
12
Simulations Map: what is the most probable type of the simulation in which we live?
turchin
7y
47
9
Superintelligence 12: Malignant failure modes
KatjaGrace
8y
51
7
Physicalism implies experience never dies. So what am I going to experience after it does?
Szymon Kucharski
1y
1
7
Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
4mo
3