Eliezer Yudkowsky

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Artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics. Co-founder and research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Known for populari... Show More

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Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky · Feb 25, 2023

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Excellent entire thread.

Tweet Feb 25, 2023

Jacob's law of equal sexual oppression/privilege: in societies where hetero-monogamy is the norm dating/sex/marriage will be equally difficult and equally rewarding for men and women as a whole I will offer 3 arguments to support this belief: empiri

by Himbo sapiens

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Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky · Feb 18, 2023

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This is known as the Fermi paradox and is orthogonal to AI issues - you run into it whether (unlikely) biological evolved creatures are eating the stars, or superintelligences are. Either can build fast probes. Best analysis I've seen:

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Grabby Aliens – a simple model by Robin Hanson

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Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky · Oct 3, 2022

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I think the opening chapters of A Fire Upon the Deep did a great job.

Book Apr, 1992

A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)

by Vernor Vinge

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Eliezer Yudkowsky @ESYudkowsky · Sep 17, 2022

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It may be unfair to compare the best of the past with the random of the present; but even so, reading this essay from 1909, I am struck by how it takes a delight in ideas and thinking, which seems to be almost vanished from the present day.

Article May 1, 1909

Is Immortality Desirable?