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Cross-posted from my blog. Yudkowsky writes: In general and across all instances I can think of so far, I do not agree with the part of

Cross-posted from my blog. What does MIRI's research program study? The most established term for this was coined by MIRI founder Elieze

Cross-posted from my blog. "The stabilization of environments" is a paper about AIs that reshape their environments to make it easier to a

One of the most interesting debates on Less Wrong that seems like it should be definitively resolvable is the one between Eliezer Yudkowsky,

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Previously: Contrarian Excuses, The Correct Contrarian Cluster, What is bunk?, Common Sense as a Prior, Trusting Expert Consensus, Prefer Co

It would be nice (and expensive) to get a systematic survey on this, but my impressions [1] after tracking down lots of past technology pred

While visiting Oxford for MIRI’s November 2013 workshop, I had the pleasure of visiting a meeting of “Skeptics in the Pub” in the delightful

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