Here’s an experiment:| machinocene.substack.com
"...it doesn't look like things have been normal for a long time... we just live on this rocket ship that took off 5 seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going."| 80,000 Hours
We seem to be among the earliest living beings in the galaxy.| Cold Takes
The long view of economic history says we're in the midst of a huge, unsustainable acceleration. What happens next?| Cold Takes
PASTA: Process for Automating Scientific and Technological Advancement.| Cold Takes
Why would we program AI that wants to harm us? Because we might not know how to do otherwise.| Cold Takes
We, the people living in this century, have the chance to have a huge impact on huge numbers of people to come - if we can make sense of the situation enough to find helpful actions.| Cold Takes
What the best available forecasting methods say - and why there's no "expert field" for this topic.| Cold Takes
thinking about scary things • examples from Wave • examples from elsewhere • finding a buddy • getting the timing right • a list of abyss questions| benkuhn.net
The "most important century" series of blog posts argues that the 21st century could be the most important century ever for humanity, via the development of advanced AI systems that could dramatically speed up scientific and technological advancement, getting us more quickly than most people imagine to a deeply unfamiliar| Cold Takes
Texts on this and that.| Erich Grunewald's Blog
How big a deal could AI misalignment be? About as big as it gets.| Cold Takes