silentbob's post "Failures in Kindness" is excellent. I love the idea that sometimes, when we exaimine a situation in depth, the most "kind" course of action can be highly conterintuitive. A few other examples I'd like to offer: Appreciative Kindness Imagine you meet a friend-of-a-friend for the first time while...
Paul Christiano makes the case that if we use the universal prior to make important predictions, then we will end up assigning a large amount of probability mass to hypotheses which involve intelligent agents living in alternate universes who have thus-far deliberately made the correct predictions so that they might...
In this post I propose an (allegedly...) secure AI boxing method. For reasons elaborated at the end of the post, this proposal is probably unsafe, and is certainly not practical. Still, I've elected to share my thoughts on this in the hope of receiving valuable feedback, as well a hope...