Consciousness is the great mystery. In search of answers, scientists have plumbed every edge case...
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I often disagree with Marginal Revolution, but their post today made me a new level of angry:...
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The Evidence That A Million Americans Died Of COVID
Many commenters responded to yesterday’s post by challenging the claim that 1.2 million...
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Five years later, we can’t stop talking about COVID. lockdowns? The conflicting...
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Highlights From The Comments On AI Geoguessr
Thanks to everyone who commented on the original post....
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Book Review: Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids
Bryan Caplan’s Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids is like the Bible. You already know what it...
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Ask Redditors what’s the worst subreddit, and a few names always come up. /r/atheism and...
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AI Futures Project is the group behind AI 2027. I’ve been helping them with their blog. Posts...
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The Populist Right Must Own Tariffs
President Trump’s approval rating has fallen to near-historic lows. With economic disruption...
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Cathy Young’s new hit piece on Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) doesn’t mince words. Titled...
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Some of the more unhinged writing on superintelligence pictures AI doing things that seem like...
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Highlights From The Comments On POSIWID
(original post: Come On, Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does) … Thanks to...
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[I haven’t independently verified each link. On average, commenters will end up spotting evidence...
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Or maybe 2028, it's complicated In 2021, a researcher named Daniel Kokotajlo published a blog...
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In Ballad of the White Horse, G.K. Chesterton describes the Virgin Mary: Her face was like an...
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Here’s a list of things I updated on after working on the scenario. Some of these are discussed...
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AI 2027 (Full Recording with Footnotes and Text Boxes)
We predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous, exceeding that...
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Come On, Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does
(see Wikipedia: The Purpose Of A System Is What It Does) Consider the following claims The...
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"Deros And The Ur-Abduction" In Asterisk
Asterisk invited me to participate in their “Weird” themed issue, so I wrote five thousand words...
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Misophonia: Beyond Sensory Sensitivity
Jake Eaton has a great article on misophonia in Asterisk. Misophonia is a condition in which...
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