Horosphere

Is there any way to recover lost work? Apologies for 'polluting' the site with this question, I recently lost an important section of a post I had been typing.

The topic of acausal extortion (particularly variants of Roko's basilisk) is sometimes mentioned and often dismissed with reference to something like the fact that an agent could simply precommit not to give in to blackmail. These responses themselves have responses, and it is not completely clear that at the end...

It's possible to imagine two separate sub-universes, causally isolated from one another, each containing a complex, conscious, intelligent creature whose mind consists of interacting spinor fields and potentials, as well as another, computationally simpler creature interacting with it. For the purpose of this thought experiment, it's helpful to assume that...

This question is addressed to anyone who is confident that AIs are either not conscious, or for some other reason unable to experience pleasure and pain and therefore not morally valuable, or moral patients. Why do you believe this, and how can you be sufficiently confident that it is true,...

This post is intended to lay out a possible way in which an eternally fixed set of preferences or objective function could be avoided as an emergent consequence of the internal structure and dynamics of an expanding mind. As I lack a deep technical understanding of current AI, or a...

Introduction: This post is intended to explain various reasons why AI alignment, as it tends to be imagined and attempted, is potentially seriously problematic for moral reasons to do with harm to the AIs themselves. It discusses why this might be from a deontological and utilitarian perspective, and why these...

What is the best way to start a disscussion, conversation or debate about a particular topic on LessWrong? If I have an idea, but I expect people disagree with me and will identify it as mistaken (whether it is or not) , I can't simply post about it because it...