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Good Bones

Ajeya Cotra
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The art of the epistemic deal

One of my most deranged pleasures is haggling over minutia in high-stakes draft documents. Do we think Event “may” happen or “could possibly” happen? Can we “not rule out” Proposition, or do we consider Proposition “plausible”? Is Thing “hi...

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The good guys in Don’t Look Up suck

Over the weekend I rewatched Don’t Look Up with a few friends (spoilers ahead). This is a real Gettier case of a movie. Apparently it’s supposed to be an analogy for climate change? It’s a terrible analogy for climate change. But for a movi...

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Perfunctory goodbyes

My mom is the third of four girls. She grew up with much more scarcity than I’ve ever known, and felt the strain from competing with her sisters for care and attention and resources. She was born into a very sexist culture — she and my aunt...

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We can get on the same page

I remember being on a comment thread in some Google doc around 2021 discussing whether people should put effort into making a more compelling intellectual case for AI takeover risk. Someone was like: “How much more clear could the case poss...

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What is love?

A classic definition of love is caring deeply about another’s good: to love someone is to prioritize their goals, desires, and wellbeing. On this view, love is a choice. You can apply conscious reasoning and effort toward the goal of loving...

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