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As a part of public relations, I think it's important to keep tabs on how the Singularity and related topics (GAI, FAI, life-extension, etc.

ETA: There is now a third thread, so send new comments there.   Since the first thread has exceeded 500 comments, it seems time for a ne

Previously: Eliezer Yudkowsky facts, and Kevin's prediction.   A bit of silliness for the day.  Below the fold to spare those with delic

Today's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.  (Which incidentally is a very funny webcomic I read regularly.)  Mouseover the red button for a

"Whoever saves a single life, it is as if he had saved the whole world."   —The Talmud, Sanhedrin 4:5 That was the epigraph Eliezer use

In his recent post, rhollerith wrote, I am more likely than not vastly better off than I would have been if <I had made decision X> Th

The fiction piece in this week's New Yorker deals with some of the same themes as Eliezer's "Three Worlds Collide"; viz., the clash of value

Inspired in part by Robin Hanson's excellent article on paternalism a while back, and in response to the various akrasia posts. In C.S. L