The official audio version of Astral Codex Ten, with an archive of posts from Slate Star Codex. It's
(see Wikipedia: The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does) Consider the following claims The purpose
Here’s a list of things I updated on after working on the scenario. Some of these are discussed in m
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that of
Or maybe 2028, it's complicated In 2021, a researcher named Daniel Kokotajlo published a blog post c
In Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton describes the Virgin Mary: Her face was like an open
Asterisk invited me to participate in their “Weird” themed issue, so I wrote five thousand words on
People love trying to find holes in the drowning child thought experiment. This is natural: it’s obv
Jake Eaton has a great article on misophonia in Asterisk. Misophonia is a condition in which people
Last month, I put out a request for experts to help me understand the details of OpenAI’s forprofit
Sorry, you can only get drugs when there's a drug shortage. Three GLP-1 drugs are approved for weigh
Most headlines have said something like New NAEP Scores Dash Hope Of Post-COVID Learning Recovery,
I enjoy the yearly book review contest, but it feels like last year’s contest is barely done, and I
Intelligence seems to correlate with total number of neurons in the brain. Different animals’ intell
[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence th
Conflict theory is the belief that political disagreements come from material conflict. So for examp
[Original thread here: Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Defeats Most Arguments For God’s Existence.]
St. Felix publicly declared that he believed with 79% probability that COVID had a natural origin. H
It feels like 2010 again - the bloggers are debating the proofs for the existence of God. I found t
From the Commerce Department: U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released
In the past day, Zvi has written about deliberative alignment, and OpenAI has updated their spec. Th
