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Anthropics
Sleeping Beauty Paradox
Space Exploration & Colonization
Paradoxes
Great Filter
Simulation Hypothesis
Pascal's Mugging
Extraterrestrial Life
Longtermism
Grabby Aliens
Infinities In Ethics
Chemistry
137 posts
Existential Risk
Academic Papers
Biosecurity
160
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
140
All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
40
131
The Hero With A Thousand Chances
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
171
130
If a tree falls on Sleeping Beauty...
ata
12y
28
122
Semantic Stopsigns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
111
120
On infinite ethics
Joe Carlsmith
10mo
68
120
My current thoughts on the risks from SETI
Matthew Barnett
9mo
25
119
Beyond Astronomical Waste
Wei_Dai
4y
41
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Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
353
93
Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
32
83
Snyder-Beattie, Sandberg, Drexler & Bonsall (2020): The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life Is Rare
Kaj_Sotala
2y
20
78
Is the potential astronomical waste in our universe too small to care about?
Wei_Dai
8y
17
75
Anthropic signature: strange anti-correlations
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
25
75
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
224
A Quick Guide to Confronting Doom
Ruby
8mo
36
199
Some AI research areas and their relevance to existential safety
Andrew_Critch
2y
40
190
On saving one's world
Rob Bensinger
7mo
5
164
2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Larks
12mo
26
126
Intergenerational trauma impeding cooperative existential safety efforts
Andrew_Critch
6mo
28
114
Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory
jefftk
6mo
4
112
Jaan Tallinn's 2020 Philanthropy Overview
jaan
1y
4
110
"Taking AI Risk Seriously" (thoughts by Critch)
Raemon
4y
68
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In defense of flailing, with foreword by Bill Burr
lc
6mo
8
87
Should ethicists be inside or outside a profession?
Eliezer Yudkowsky
4y
6
84
Tiling Agents for Self-Modifying AI (OPFAI #2)
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
259
80
Bayesian Adjustment Does Not Defeat Existential Risk Charity
steven0461
9y
92
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Jaan Tallinn's Philanthropic Pledge
jaan
2y
1
70
Far-UVC Light Update: No, LEDs are not around the corner (tweetstorm)
Davidmanheim
1mo
27