Observer Effect
MarivenNotes on subjective experience, anthropics, mathematical physics, intelligence, and animal welfare.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 5 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 4 months ago |
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How Life Started
There is more or less a single clear narrative that tells us how life originally arose from dead chemicals, abiogenically, and it can be read directly off of the molecular biology of today’s organisms. We’ll read this by starting off at the...
Boltzmann Tulpas
(Why do you find yourself to be a human, living right before a technological singularity? Why not a raccoon, or a medieval peasant, or some far-future digital mind?)
The Dreams of Greater Minds
Somewhere, in some universe, there’s an E...
Possible Principles of Superagency
Prior to the era of superintelligent actors, we’re likely to see a brief era of superagentic actors—actors who are capable of setting and achieving goals in the pursuit of a given end with significantly greater efficiency and reliability th...
Defining Deception
What counts as a lie?
Centrally, a lie is a statement that contradicts reality, and that is formed with the explicit intent of misleading someone. If you ask me if I’m free on Thursday (I am), and I tell you that I’m busy because I don’t w...
Introduction
Observer Effect is a blog about:
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Phenomenology, subjective experience, and qualia;
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Anthropics, cosmology, and quantum foundations;
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The physics of intelligence, and more broadly of optimality and inference;
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Metaethics and...
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Long-form content on physics, anthropics, ethics, animal welfare, AI, rationality, and other topics. Largely cleaned-up content taken from Twitter and my website.
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