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I came across a 2015 blog post by Vitalik Buterin that contains some ideas similar to Paul Christiano's recent Crowdsourcing moderation with

Some of you may already have seen this story, since it's several days old, but MIT Technology Review seems to have the best explanation of w

In the not too distant past, people thought that our universe might be capable of supporting an unlimited amount of computation. Today our b

Or to ask the question another way, is there such a thing as a theory of bounded rationality, and if so, is it the same thing as a theory of

In this post, I list six metaethical possibilities that I think are plausible, along with some arguments or plausible stories about how/why

In early 2000, I registered my personal domain name weidai.com, along with a couple others, because I was worried that the small (sole-propr

On the subject of how an FAI team can avoid accidentally creating a UFAI, Carl Shulman wrote: If we condition on having all other variabl

I put "Friendliness" in quotes in the title, because I think what we really want, and what MIRI seems to be working towards, is closer to "o

I find Eliezer's explanation of what "should" means to be unsatisfactory, and here's an attempt to do better. Consider the following usages

I don't know what my values are. I don't even know how to find out what my values are. But do I know something about how I (or an FAI) may b