The following is a nitpick on an 18 year old blog post. This fable is retold a lot. The progenitor of it as a rationalist mashal is probably Yudkowsky's classic sequence article. To adversarially summarize: 1. It's the beginning of the second world war. The evil governor of California wishes...
The standard argument usually goes something like this: > Alice: there's a lot about the Earth that seems suspiciously fine-tuned for the evolution of complex life. > > * Our orbit happens to lie in this fairly narrow band that allows for liquid water, and it seems other solvents don't...
Authors: Henri Lemoine, Thomas Lemoine, and Fraser Lee We are excited to introduce AlignmentSearch, an attempt to create a conversational agent that can answer questions about AI alignment. We built this site in response to ArthurB’s $5k bounty for a LessWrong conversational agent calling for the creation of a chatbot...