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The Hellenic View of Existential Risk
When I was a teen, I read much of the Less Wrong and the rationalist work of the day. This provided the basis for a vague worry surrounding "existential risk." The feeling was pervasive, and I would read works about the dangers of AI or other technology to...
posted 9h ago with 4 replies 77

The Hellenic View of 77

Xenohumanism Against Shoggoth Belief
People usually think of Lovecraft as a xenophobe. I don't think that's quite right. What he was most afraid of was that the universe, and even most of so-called mankind, was not alien, but insane. He grasped at any shred of higher rational humanity whether...
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Xenohumanism Against 33

Super-Coordination Technical Exercise Problems
Another anon and I have been thinking about how to do supercoordination. We've got many ideas but we're still looking for the right problem to dive into together seriously. ...
posted 2w ago with 4 replies 1111

Super-Coordination T 1111

Rationalists should embrace will-to-power as an existential value fact
Imagine a being who systematically questions and can rewrite their beliefs and values to ensure legitimate grounding. I think humans can and should do more of this, but you might more easily imagine an AI that can read and write its own source code and bel...
posted 3w ago with 3 replies 77

Rationalists should 77

Not Superintelligence; Supercoordination
Everyone seems to be trying to arms race their way to superintelligence these days. I have a different idea: supercoordination. ...
posted 2mo ago with 34 replies 1717

Not Superintelligenc 1717

Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch" (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 3w ago with 5 replies 1111

Rat King 1518. Insur 1111

should we be anti-principle?
clickbait title but maybe you can help me out on this one. ...
posted 2mo ago with 5 replies 77

should we be anti-pr 77

Looking Beyond the Veil. Ben LT's Substack. On the esoteric mysticism involved in true science. (www.benlandautaylor.com) posted 2mo ago with 3 replies 1010

Looking Beyond the V 1010

Is independent thinking still possible in an environment where escaping social media ecochamber is nearly impossible?
Is it possible to be an independent thinker in general? ...
posted 2mo ago with 6 replies 99

Is independent think 99

How I came to believe in the goodness of God
I was raised on what my mother called "natural history". The story of creation was one of billions of years in layers of bedrock. The story of life was the struggle of genes for resources and reproduction. When I met christians, they were the unsophisticat...
posted 4mo ago with 21 replies 1717

How I came to believ 1717