PranavG

> How the flagship project of the AI Safety Community ended up helping AI Corporations. I care about preventing extinction risks from superintelligence. This de facto makes me part of the “AI Safety” community, a social cluster of people who care about these risks. In the community, a few organisations...

Hello, fellow knowledge enthusiast. Knowing things is hard, sharing our knowledge accurately is even harder, and it is all too easy to claim more knowledge than we have. Many, when confronted with this, fall back to Epistemic Humility. They err towards being under-confident. This is bad. I'll explain why here,...

We constantly change, as time passes and we experience the world. We learn and we forget. We get addicted and traumatised. We build habits and lose them. We discover new facets of reality, and start ignoring them. Our personality changes. We change. The question of how people change is complex....

I believe that many have reached Terminal Cynicism. Terminal Cynicism is a level of cynicism that leads one to perceive everything negatively, even obviously good things. It is cynicism so extreme that it renders one incapable of productive thought or action. The most common instance is people refusing to engage...

A large number of nice smart people do not have a good understanding of enmity. Almost on principle, they refuse to perceive people and movements as an enemy.[1] They feel bad about the mere idea of perceiving a group as an enemy. And as a result, they consistently get screwed...

Recently, I wrote about the Eldritch in the 21st century. In there, I made the case that cosmic horror is the major theme of the modern condition. We are dominated by super-structures, Eldritch Deities, that we neither understand nor control. 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕥𝕤, 𝔾𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕟𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤, 𝕀𝕕𝕖𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕄𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕒. They all dominate our lives,...

Very little makes sense. As we start to understand things and adapt to the rules, they change again. We live much closer together than we ever did historically. Yet we know our neighbours much less. We have witnessed the birth of a truly global culture. A culture that fits no...