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📜 Would you press this button?
The grimmest A.I. stories often center on a single moment when superintelligence slips out of our control and begins plotting our demise. But the scenario I find more likely and more irresistible is called “gradual disempowerment.”
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📜 The egalitarian’s dilemma
More complex creatures can suffer more profoundly. Elephants, for instance, mourn their dead in a way that frogs or rabbits presumably do not. An elephant losing her calf, then, is more of a loss for her than a frog’s tadpole being eaten...
📜 Happiness is bullshit, revisited
The brain computes, using evolved and learned priors, which of various outcomes have the highest expected value (in terms of fitness proxies). The higher the expected value of an outcome, the greater the motivation—i.e. the amount of atte...
📜 The project of software is complete
The project of software is complete. Not decelerating, not maturing, not entering some new and humbler phase, but complete. Complete in the way that the map of the Earth is complete, which is to say complete in the sense that the great bl...
📜 Incentives are for losers
We can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are being rewarded for doing the wrong thing. This has become the go-to diagnosis for every problem, from climate change to political polarization to scientific malfeas...
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