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February 2023
December 2022
#6: FTX collapse, value lock-in, and counterarguments to AI x-risk
[T]he sun with all the planets will in time grow too cold for life, unless indeed some great body dashes into the sun and thus gives it fresh life…
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September 2022
#5: supervolcanoes, AI takeover, and What We Owe the Future
Even if we think the prior existence view is more plausible than the total view, we should recognize that we could be mistaken about this and therefore…
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August 2022
#4: AI timelines, AGI risk, and existential risk from climate change
But if it is held that each generation can by its own deliberate acts determine for good or evil the destinies of the race, then our duties towards…
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July 2022
#3: digital sentience, AGI ruin, and forecasting track records
We could thus imagine, as an extreme case, a technologically highly advanced society, containing many complex structures, some of them far more…
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May 2022
#2: Clueless skepticism, 'longtermist' as an identity, and nanotechnology strategy research
In the littered field of discredited self-congratulatory chauvinisms, there is only one that seems to hold up, one sense in which we are special: Due to…
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April 2022
#1: AI takeoff, longtermism vs. existential risk, and probability discounting
The remedies for all our diseases will be discovered long after we are dead; and the world will be made a fit place to live in. It is to be hoped that…
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March 2022
#0: Space governance, future-proof ethics, and the launch of the Future Fund
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