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The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
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My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
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Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
34
76
UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
92
68
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
68
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
63
Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
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Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
52
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
50
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
46
Astrobiology, Astronomy, and the Fermi Paradox II: Space & Time Revisited
CellBioGuy
6y
35
46
On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
45
The Fermi Paradox: What did Sandberg, Drexler and Ord Really Dissolve?
shminux
4y
28
45
How confident are we that there are no Extremely Obvious Aliens?
Logan Zoellner
7mo
25
142
All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
40
102
Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
32
101
Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
41
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Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
Wei_Dai
8y
17
85
To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast
Stuart_Armstrong
9y
50
80
Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
Kaj_Sotala
2y
20
79
Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
CellBioGuy
7y
22
58
Claims & Assumptions made in Eternity in Six Hours
Ruby
3y
7
48
Astronomy, space exploration and the Great Filter
JoshuaZ
7y
68
47
My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
AISafetyIsNotLongtermist
5mo
24
38
Colonization models: a tutorial on computational Bayesian inference (part 2/2)
snarles
11y
6
36
Astrobiology III: Why Earth?
CellBioGuy
6y
12
34
[Link] Space Stasis: What the strange persistence of rockets can teach us about innovation
Kaj_Sotala
11y
20
34
Space colonization: what can we definitely do and how do we know that?
Ruby
3y
6