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After writing about my ethics yesterday, there was some discussion about the axioms that I think are most needed to derive the rest of my ethics. > pleasure is good nobody argues against this. > suffering is bad Someone did argue that this is potentially untrue, that there exists “voluntary...

I’ve been thinking on and off about ethics for around a decade, but mostly in an informal way rather than through formal philosophy. I expect that if I spent more time seriously stress-testing my views, I’d find inconsistencies or conclusions I’m less comfortable with than I currently think. Still, this...

So as I haven’t been able to speak the past short while, one thing I have noticed is that it is harder to communicate with others. I know what you are thinking: “Wow, who could have possibly guessed? It’s harder to converse when you can’t speak?”. Indeed, I didn’t expect...

Why cryonics, and the two main methods, with practical discussion and philosophical musings on both. Epistemic status: Cryonics is a scientific field that is long established, yet long underfunded, and uncertain. I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few years and remain cautiously optimistic. Most people who...

So, you run an airline, you have a record of people that loyally keep coming back to you, you have costs associated with flying, in particular fuel. Your customers worry about the carbon emissions. Is there a something you could do things to lower some associated costs? There is! In...

To me it feels pretty emotionally clear we are nearing the end-times with AI. That in 1-4 years[1] things will be radically transformed, that at least one of the big AI labs will become autonomous research organizations working on developing the next version of their AI, perhaps with some narrow...

Introduction Note: These are results which have been in drafts for a year, see discussion about how we have moved on to thinking about these things. Our team at AI Safety Camp has been working on a project to model the trajectories of language model outputs. We're interested in predicting...