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
This was terrific:
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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
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
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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A few thoughtfully-chosen excerpts from my "How to be a wise optimist..." essay:
Lovely thread:
Working notes on Joe Carlsmith's notion of "deep atheism": michaelnotebook.com/deepatheism/...