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| | whyevolutionistrue.com
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| | I'm getting tired of writing about free will, as what I'm really interested in is determinism of the physics sort, and, as far as we know, determinism is true except in the realm of quantum mechanics-where it may still be true, but probably not. So let me lump quantum mechanics and other physical laws together...
| | www.greaterwrong.com
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| | Followup to: The Bedrock of Fairness Every time I wonder if I really need to do so much prep work to explain an idea, I manage to forget some minor thing and a dozen people promptly post objections. In this case, I seem to have forgotten to cover the topic of how morality applies to more than one person at a time. Stop laughing, it's not quite as dumb an oversight as it sounds. Sort of like how some people argue that macroeconomics should be constructed from microeconomics, I tend to see interpersonal morality as constructed from personal morality. (And definitely not the other way around!)
| | www.alignmentforum.org
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| | AI researchers warn that advanced machine learning systems may develop their own internal goals that don't match what we intended. This "mesa-optimiz...
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| In this post, I wish to propose for the reader's favorable consideration a doctrine that will strike many in the nerd community as strange, bizarre, and paradoxical, but that I hope will at least be given a hearing. The doctrine in question is this: while it is possible that, a century hence, humans will have...