Bill Jackson

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...