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Reaching out to people with the problems of friendly AI

There have been a few attempts to reach out to broader audiences in the past, but mostly in very politically/ideologically loaded topics.

How to provide a simple example to the requirement of falsifiability in the scientific method to a novice audience?

(I once posted this question on academia.stackexchange, but it was deemed to be off topic there. I hope it would be more on-topic here)

Are we failing the ideological Turing test in the case of ISIS? (a crazy ideas thread)

It is easy to think of the ISIS as just a bunch of lunatics who kill people because they believe God told them to do it, but if we take a cl

In what language should we define the utility function of a friendly AI?

I've been following the "safe AI" debates for quite some time, and I would like to share some of the views and ideas I don't remember seeing

The Galileo affair: who was on the side of rationality?

Introduction A recent survey showed that the LessWrong discussion forums mostly attract readers who are predominantly either atheists or