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It’s common to think that someone else is arguing in bad faith. In a recent blog post, Nate Soares claims that this intuition is both wrong

[Epistemic status: exploratory exercise in naming and concept-formation.] Among the kinds of people, are the Actors, and the Scribes. Acto

A parent I know reports (some details anonymized): Recently we bought my 3-year-old daughter a "behavior chart," in which she can earn st

The Open Philanthropy Project recently bought a seat on the board of the billion-dollar nonprofit AI research organization OpenAI for $30 mi

If there's anything we can do now about the risks of superintelligent AI, then OpenAI makes humanity less safe. Once upon a time, some goo

I am surrounded by well-meaning people trying to take responsibility for the future of the universe. I think that this attitude – prominent

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Some theater people at NYU people wanted to demonstrate how gender stereotypes affected the 2016 US presidential election. So they decided t