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| | I remember reading once, though I can't remember where, about a technique called 'contrasting'. The idea is to visualize a world where you've accomplished your goals, and visualize the current world, and hold the two worlds in contrast to each other. Apparently there was a study about this; the experimental 'contrasting' group was more successful than the control in accomplishing its goals. It occurred to me that we need some of this. Strategic insights about the path to FAI are not robust or likely to be highly reliable. And in order to find a path forward, you need to know where you're trying to go. Thus, some contrasting:
| | www.alignmentforum.org
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| | Introduction Imagine you are tasked with curing a disease which hasn't appeared yet. Setting aside why you would know about such a disease's emergen...
| | www.biointelligence-explosion.com
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| | Do biological minds have a future?
| | joecarlsmith.com
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| A high-level picture of how we might get from here to safe superintelligence.