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"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame." Uncle Iroh, "Avatar: The Last Airbender

Among those concerned about risks from advanced AI, I've encountered people who would be interested in a career in AI research, but are worr

The OpenAI research team is doing a Reddit AMA today! A good opportunity to ask them questions about AI safety and machine learning.

A great overview article on AI breakthroughs by Richard Mallah from FLI, linking to many excellent recent papers worth reading.  Progress

I am a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute based in Boston, and we are looking to fill two job openings that some LessWrongers might

In anxious, frustrating or aversive situations, I find it helpful to visualize the worst case that I fear might happen, and try to accept it

I'm excited to announce that the Future of Life Institute has just launched an existential risk news site! The site will have regular arti

I learned a game at Burning Man this year that was about connecting to people and reading their nonverbal signals, called the "open-closed"

This is a result from the first MIRIx Cambridge workshop (coauthored with Janos and Jim). One potential problem with bounded utility funct

Discussion article for the meetup : Robin Hanson: Why is Abstraction both Statusful and Silly? WHEN: 14 July 2014 07:00:00PM (-0400)