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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
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Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
353
75
Anthropic signature: strange anti-correlations
Stuart_Armstrong
8y
25
73
The Absolute Self-Selection Assumption
paulfchristiano
11y
45
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Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence
Eliezer Yudkowsky
9y
406
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Moore's Paradox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
25
56
The Lifespan Dilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
220
56
The Anthropic Principle: Five Short Examples
Optimization Process
5y
13
53
Anthropics and the Universal Distribution
Joe Carlsmith
1y
11
52
The Anthropic Trilemma
Eliezer Yudkowsky
13y
233
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The Presumptuous Philosopher, self-locating information, and Solomonoff induction
Charlie Steiner
2y
28
160
The AI in a box boxes you
Stuart_Armstrong
12y
390
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All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild
HoldenKarnofsky
1y
40
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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Don't leave your fingerprints on the future
So8res
2mo
32
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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
Why it took so long to do the Fermi calculation right?
Jan_Kulveit
4y
20
72
Robin Hanson's Grabby Aliens model explained - part 1
Writer
1y
34
70
To reduce astronomical waste: take your time, then go very fast
Stuart_Armstrong
9y
50
68
Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model
Tristan Cook
8mo
22
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Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation
lsusr
1y
9
61
My Most Likely Reason to Die Young is AI X-Risk
AISafetyIsNotLongtermist
5mo
24
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Astronomy, Astrobiology, & The Fermi Paradox I: Introductions, and Space & Time
CellBioGuy
7y
22