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Extraterrestrial Life
Chemistry
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Simulation Hypothesis
Mind Crime
52
The Aliens have Landed!
TimFreeman
11y
158
46
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
29
Great-Filter Hard-Step Math, Explained Intuitively
Daniel_Eth
1y
7
25
Alien neuropunk slaver civilizations
D_Malik
7y
18
16
Risks of downloading alien AI via SETI search
turchin
9y
99
16
For fiction: How could alien minds differ from human minds?
Solvent
11y
67
15
Grabby aliens and Zoo hypothesis
avturchin
1y
5
15
[link] On the abundance of extraterrestrial life after the Kepler mission
Gunnar_Zarncke
8y
25
15
The map of the risks of aliens
turchin
6y
21
15
Anthropics and Fermi: grabby, visible, zoo-keeping, and early aliens
Stuart_Armstrong
1y
1
14
What is the best chemistry textbook?
Maxwell Peterson
1y
8
14
[Paper] The Global Catastrophic Risks of the Possibility of Finding Alien AI During SETI
avturchin
4y
2
150
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
35
[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
28
Are you in a Boltzmann simulation?
Stuart_Armstrong
4y
29
21
Superintelligence 12: Malignant failure modes
KatjaGrace
8y
51
13
Negotiating Up and Down the Simulation Hierarchy: Why We Might Survive the Unaligned Singularity
David Udell
7mo
16
12
some simulation hypotheses
carado
2mo
3
12
Simulation Typology and Termination Risks
avturchin
3y
0
11
The Simulation Epiphany Problem
Koen.Holtman
3y
13
8
Simulations Map: what is the most probable type of the simulation in which we live?
turchin
7y
47
1
Could the simulation argument also apply to dreams?
Nathan1123
4mo
3
-2
Principia Compat. The potential Importance of Multiverse Theory
mako yass
6y
36