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I believe that internet culture influences real culture much more than the other way around. This is quite hard to prove, but I often see an idea start to come up in real-life conversations where I’ve seen it appear on Twitter a few weeks before. I’m not sure if ordinary...
Roughly speaking, Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weight Project tries to estimate how intense suffering is in different animals, relative to humans. A moral weight of 1.0 means it is exactly as intense as in humans. It’s notoriously animal-friendly, e.g. it holds that 14 bees = 1 human. Here are some of...
Ethical emotivism is a non-realist moral theory[1] which says that there is nothing more to moral statements than exclamations of emotion. For instance, saying “murder is bad” is just the same as saying “boo murder”, or expressing that you get a “bad feeling” when you consider murder, but there’s nothing...
This is an Inkhaven crosspost, and as such is fairly "off the cuff" Among rationalists, the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics is broadly accepted, and people throw around concepts like “Everett branches” to explain normal probability problems. This is substantially based on Eliezer Yudkowsky’s arguments from 2008, as...
Superpersuasion[1] is one of few ways a non-embodied AI system could bootstrap itself into causing harm in the physical world. It's not obvious that superpersuasion is even possible, to quote Bryan Caplan: > I’ve got great confidence that the most incredible intelligence of the universe is not going to be...