avturchin

Karma: 4,456

Evolution favors the ability to change subjective probabilities in MWI + Experimental test

avturchinAug 24, 2025, 2:58 PM

−3 points

7 votes

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6 comments11 min readLW link

Time Machine as Existential Risk

avturchinJun 28, 2025, 3:17 PM

15 points

18 votes

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7 comments45 min readLW link

Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer

James_Miller and avturchin

Apr 27, 2025, 4:17 PM

21 points

54 votes

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65 comments5 min readLW link

Experimental testing: can I treat myself as a random sample?

avturchinApr 22, 2025, 12:34 PM

9 points

7 votes

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41 comments4 min readLW link

The Quantum Mars Teleporter: An Empirical Test Of Personal Identity Theories

avturchinJan 22, 2025, 11:48 AM

10 points

12 votes

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18 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What would be the IQ and other benchmarks of o3 that uses $1 million worth of compute resources to answer one question?

avturchinDec 26, 2024, 11:08 AM

16 points

6 votes

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2 comments1 min readLW link

Sideloading: creating a model of a person via LLM with very large prompt

avturchin and RomanS

Nov 22, 2024, 4:41 PM

13 points

9 votes

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4 comments35 min readLW link

If I care about measure, choices have additional burden (+AI generated LW-comments)

avturchinNov 15, 2024, 10:27 AM

5 points

2 votes

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11 comments2 min readLW link

Quantum Immortality: A Perspective if AI Doomers are Probably Right

avturchin and James_Miller

Nov 7, 2024, 4:06 PM

13 points

22 votes

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55 comments14 min readLW link

Bitter lessons about lucid dreaming

avturchinOct 16, 2024, 9:27 PM

81 points

47 votes

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62 comments2 min readLW link

Three main arguments that AI will save humans and one meta-argument

avturchinOct 2, 2024, 11:39 AM

9 points

12 votes

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8 comments2 min readLW link

Debates how to defeat aging: Aubrey de Grey vs. Peter Fedichev.

avturchinMay 27, 2024, 10:25 AM

18 points

6 votes

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0 comments1 min readLW link

Magic by forgetting

avturchinApr 24, 2024, 2:32 PM

14 points

25 votes

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39 comments4 min readLW link

Strengthening the Argument for Intrinsic AI Safety: The S-Curves Perspective

avturchinAug 7, 2023, 1:13 PM

8 points

5 votes

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0 comments12 min readLW link

The Sharp Right Turn: sudden deceptive alignment as a convergent goal

avturchinJun 6, 2023, 9:59 AM

38 points

24 votes

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5 comments1 min readLW link

Another formalization attempt: Central Argument That AGI Presents a Global Catastrophic Risk

avturchinMay 12, 2023, 1:22 PM

16 points

7 votes

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4 comments2 min readLW link

Running many AI variants to find correct goal generalization

avturchinApr 4, 2023, 2:16 PM

20 points

7 votes

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3 comments1 min readLW link

AI-kills-everyone scenarios require robotic infrastructure, but not necessarily nanotech

avturchinApr 3, 2023, 12:45 PM

53 points

32 votes

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47 comments4 min readLW link

The AI Shutdown Problem Solution through Commitment to Archiving and Periodic Restoration

avturchinMar 30, 2023, 1:17 PM

16 points

5 votes

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7 comments1 min readLW link

Long-term memory for LLM via self-replicating prompt

avturchinMar 10, 2023, 10:28 AM

20 points

17 votes

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3 comments2 min readLW link

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