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Kantian trying to figure out how to live and also sharing my many insights.
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On being capable of the impossible (opens the original)
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I don’t want to mislead people into thinking this will be some kind of inspirational post. No, I am merely arguing for the thesis that there are some things you are capable of doing, and which are such that it is impossible that you do them. For a simple example, consider the case of God, who is all-powerful and all-good. If God’s being good means anything, then there have to be some actions He will definitely not take because they would not be good. For example, God will not create a universe t
Existential risk from AI is an emergency and must be addressed immediately (opens the original)
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Agents that are way smarter than humans are possible. We can build agents way smarter than humans. If an agent is way smarter than humans, then it could kill us all or do something comparably catastrophic if it wanted to. Unless such an agent has some very specific goals, it will want to kill all of us or do something comparably catastrophic. By default, we should not expect such agents to have the right goals. We do not know how to make such agents have the right goals, and we should expect suc
The Miracle of Naturalism (opens the original)
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It’s easy to forget how insane it is that life is naturalistically explicable.1 Suppose no evolutionary or genetic science has been done yet, and you and many other people are born into this world, and you wonder about the past of your species. Only the most insanely dogmatic naturalist would even dare to say “Yeah, so, my running theory is that if you get the right chemicals together under the right conditions and have a constant energy source, and if you wait a while, then you end up with peop
On emotionally manipulative memes (opens the original)
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CW: Discussion of OCD and potentially scary obsessions. If you think you could be harmed by new ideas about what to be scared of, and you’re not already tuned in to the recent Catholic Substack discourse, I strongly recommend not reading this post. In writing this I run the risk of looking like I’m personally attacking some people I love, and I regret that. I want to assure the reader that I really, truly am scared for people’s wellbeing, and my goal is to help people pursue the truth, whatever
Coming out as a thirder (opens the original)
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I want to first warn the reader that I’m still a total noob when it comes to anthropics. There might be mistakes below, or claims and arguments that would be undermined by existing literature. This post merely records my personal journey with respect to the Sleeping Beauty problem. 1. Sleeping BeautyThere aren’t a lot of philosophical issues where disagreement can make me unironically upset. Of those that can, a disproportionate share are weird decision theory/formal epistemology thought experim
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