Misaligned hive minds, Xi and Trump waking up, and automated Ilyas accelerating AI progress| www.dwarkesh.com
Previously:| deathisbad.substack.com
Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. Combined with Hanlon’s Razor, we arrive at the inescapable conclusion that most problems are caused by incompetence. What’s particularly interesting is that the number of incompetent people in a system tends to increase the higher up you go. Part of this is due to the Peter Principle, where organizations promote employees until they become incompetent, but this happens in the first place because it becomes harder to measure competenc...| Erik McClure
Ten years ago Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote a post about cryonics| www.thelastrationalist.com
I recently came across this post, which challenges readers to propose a definition for rationality. The post is several years old so I’m clearly late to the game, and I’m sure that most everything has been said already, but I figured I’d take a crack at it anyways. In my...| jacobbuckman.com
