Reminds me of this paragraph from @michaelnielsen.bsky.social about human willingness to delegate to world-ending authority automated systems (whether because oversight is impossible or just inconvenient)
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I surprised myself by writing a blog post about religion this morning 🤭
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I thank (blame?) @economeager.bsky.social and @michaelnielsen.bsky.social for inspiring me with their recent essays
A few thoughtfully-chosen excerpts from my "How to be a wise optimist..." essay:
New essay: “Which Future?”
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On how to wisely navigate risks from transformative technology, especially artificial superintelligence (ASI). This condenses much of the key thinking from my more extended essays
Who is going to less.online?
This was terrific:
Lovely thread:
I enjoyed this thoughtful account of how Open Phil approach progress: support technical and scientific advances, but keeping a thoughtful eye on safety, too, viewing it as part of progress, not competitive with
Working notes on Joe Carlsmith's notion of "deep atheism": michaelnotebook.com/deepatheism/...
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