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| | www.alignmentforum.org
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| | Suppose you want to build a robot to achieve some real-world goal for you-a goal that requires the robot to learn for itself and figure out a lot of...
| | joecarlsmith.com
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| | Essay on whether a certain sort of prior helps resolve tough questions in anthropics. My answer: maybe a few, but at high cost.
| | www.greaterwrong.com
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| | Several months ago, we had an interesting discussion about the Sleeping Beauty problem, which runs as follows: In the end, the fact that there were so many reasonable-sounding arguments for both sides, and so much disagreement about a simple-sounding problem among above-average rationalists, should have set off major alarm bells. Yet only a few people pointed this out; most commenters, including me, followed the silly strategy of trying to answer the question, and I did so even after I noticed that my intuition could see both answers as being right depending on which way I looked at it, which in retrospect would have been a perfect time to say "I notice that I am confused" and backtrack a bit...
| | ungraindesable.blogspot.com
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| There has been a discussion on Twitter regarding the view, expressed by Philip Goff, that the multiverse hypothesis is not a good explanati...