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Thoughts of one who wants to make the world a freer and richer place.
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The Domain Question (opens the original)
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The Domain QuestionOn what “attractor” would have to mean, and why the answer relocates the alignment problem1. The word is not doing what it is being asked to doA recent exchange among people who think seriously about superintelligence settled quickly into a fork: either Goodhart wins and optimization carries agent values somewhere alien, or goodness is a robust attractor and sufficiently capable agents converge on it. The second branch was then split — whether the attractor exists, and whether
Every Emission Is a Trespass, and That’s Fine (opens the original)
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Bryan Caplan has pointed out that Rothbard’s treatment of pollution is pulled apart by two of Rothbard’s own commitments. The first commitment is the theory of rights: property rights are absolute side constraints, so any uninvited physical invasion of owned property, including particulates, sound waves, radiation, is trespass, and the victim may enjoin it regardless of the costs and benefits. Taken literally, this forbids industrial civilization, and most of pre-industrial civilization too, sin
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