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Richard Ngo

Understanding the system of the world

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Economic efficiency often undermines sociopolitical autonomy

Many people in my intellectual circles use economic abstractions as one of their main tools for reasoning about the world. However, this often leads them to overlook how interventions which promote economic efficiency undermine people’s abi...

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Contra Caplan on higher education

Three theories of higher education

Getting an undergraduate degree is very costly. In America, the direct financial cost of attending a private university is typically in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even when tuition is cheap...

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Aligning to Virtues

Which alignment target?

Suppose you’re an AI company or government, and you want to figure out what values to align your AI to. Here are three options, and some of their downsides:

AIs that are aligned to a set of consequentialist val...

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Distributed vs centralized agents

Much of my thinking over the last year has focusing on understanding the concept of “distributed agents”, as opposed to the “centralized agents” that the existing paradigm of expected utility maximization describes. One way of describing th...

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21st Century Civilization curriculum

I’ve just released a curriculum on foundational questions in modern politics, which I drew up in collaboration with Samo Burja. I’ve copied the introductory text and the section headings below; you can find the full curriculum at www.21civ....

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