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chaosmage

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The Seven Secular Sermons guy. Long-time ingroup member. Current occupation: applied AI in media. Divorced dad of three in Leipzig, Germany.

Could util­ity func­tions be for nar­row AI only, and down­right an­ti­thet­i­cal to AGI?

chaosmageMar 16, 2017, 6:24 PM
9 points
38 comments5 min readLW link

In-depth de­scrip­tion of a quite strict, quite suc­cess­ful gov­ern­ment pro­gram against teen sub­stance abuse, spread­ing from Iceland

chaosmageJan 19, 2017, 12:04 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(mosaicscience.com)

A differ­ent ar­gu­ment against Univer­sal Ba­sic Income

chaosmageDec 28, 2016, 10:35 PM
27 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

What de­gree of cous­ins are you and I? Es­ti­mates of Con­san­guinity to pro­mote feel­ings of kin­ship and empathy

chaosmageMay 20, 2015, 5:10 PM
6 points
29 comments8 min readLW link

Nick Bostrom’s TED talk on Su­per­in­tel­li­gence is now online

chaosmageApr 27, 2015, 3:15 PM
34 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

3-day Sols­tice in Leipzig, Ger­many: small, nice, very low cost, in­cludes ac­com­mo­da­tion, 19th-21st Dec

chaosmageOct 9, 2014, 4:38 PM
17 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

In or­der to greatly re­duce X-risk, de­sign self-repli­cat­ing space­craft with­out AGI

chaosmageSep 20, 2014, 8:25 PM
3 points
37 comments6 min readLW link

Talk­ing to your­self: A use­ful think­ing tool that seems un­der­stud­ied and underdiscussed

chaosmageSep 9, 2014, 4:56 PM
45 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

[link] The ethics of ge­net­i­cally en­hanced mon­key slaves

chaosmageFeb 20, 2014, 9:40 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

A big Sin­gu­lar­ity-themed Hol­ly­wood movie out in April offers many op­por­tu­ni­ties to talk about AI risk

chaosmageJan 7, 2014, 5:48 PM
49 points
85 comments1 min readLW link

Mea­sur­ing lethal­ity in re­duced ex­pected heartbeats

chaosmageJan 3, 2014, 2:14 PM
6 points
27 comments1 min readLW link

Meetup : Sec­u­lar Sols­tice Cel­e­bra­tion! (And the Inau­gu­ra­tion of the LW Leipzig Com­mu­nity)

chaosmageNov 30, 2013, 12:42 PM
8 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Cog­ni­tive bi­ases about vi­o­lence as a ne­go­ti­at­ing tactic

chaosmageOct 25, 2013, 11:43 AM
7 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Teach­ing ra­tio­nal­ity to kids?

chaosmageOct 16, 2013, 12:38 PM
17 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Tech­niques to con­sciously ac­ti­vate a ra­tio­nal­ist self-image

chaosmageAug 30, 2013, 12:01 AM
5 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

The Fermi para­dox as ev­i­dence against the likely­hood of un­friendly AI

chaosmageAug 1, 2013, 6:46 PM
9 points
54 comments2 min readLW link

Busi­ness In­sider: “They Fi­nally Tested The ‘Pri­soner’s Dilemma’ On Ac­tual Pri­son­ers — And The Re­sults Were Not What You Would Ex­pect”

chaosmageJul 24, 2013, 12:44 PM
3 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Can we make Drake-like Fermi es­ti­mates of ex­pected dis­tance to the next planet with prim­i­tive, sen­tient or self-im­prov­ing life?

chaosmageJul 10, 2013, 1:34 AM
−1 points
12 comments1 min readLW link

Google’s Ex­ec­u­tive Chair­man Eric Sch­midt: ap­par­ently a transhumanist

chaosmageApr 25, 2013, 12:36 AM
14 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

Any­body want to meet in Leipzig, Ger­many?

chaosmageApr 3, 2013, 10:53 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readLW link