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Great Filter
Grabby Aliens
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Mind Crime
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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
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UFAI cannot be the Great Filter
Thrasymachus
10y
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Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
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Could a single alien message destroy us?
Writer
25d
23
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
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
44
The Great Filter is early, or AI is hard
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
76
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How inevitable was modern human civilization - data
taw
13y
104
32
The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved - James Fodor
mako yass
2y
4
30
I just watched the Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs). Here's a succinct summary and commentary + some background
mako yass
7mo
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29
Is Grabby Aliens built on good anthropic reasoning?
Steven Byrnes
9mo
29
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The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
68
Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
56
Simulation arguments
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
16
52
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
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On alien science
Richard_Ngo
3y
8
40
Holy Grails of Chemistry
chemslug
2y
2
39
Weird question: could we see distant aliens?
paulfchristiano
4y
78
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[Link] Does a Simulation Really Need to Be Run?
VincentYu
11y
17
32
What would convince you you'd won the lottery?
Stuart_Armstrong
5y
11
29
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
28
Are you in a Boltzmann simulation?
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
29
25
Alien neuropunk slaver civilizations
D_Malik
7y
18
21
Superintelligence 12: Malignant failure modes
KatjaGrace
8y
51
16
Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search
turchin
9y
99