James_Miller

Karma: 15,705

Past Automation Replaced Jobs. AI Will Replace Workers.

James_Miller26 Mar 2026 12:32 UTC

52 points

6 comments13 min readLW link

Precedents for the Unprecedented: Historical Analogies for Thirteen Artificial Superintelligence Risks

James_Miller16 Jan 2026 18:43 UTC

158 points

15 comments63 min readLW link

Warning Aliens About the Dangerous AI We Might Create

James_Miller and avturchin

12 Nov 2025 15:26 UTC

90 points

25 comments5 min readLW link

AI Doomers Should Raise Hell

James_Miller29 Oct 2025 16:10 UTC

−2 points

9 comments6 min readLW link

Rejecting Violence as an AI Safety Strategy

James_Miller22 Sep 2025 16:34 UTC

73 points

5 comments3 min readLW link

Dear Paperclip Maximizer, Please Don’t Turn Off the Simulation

James_Miller and turchin

4 Jul 2025 16:13 UTC

14 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer

James_Miller and avturchin

27 Apr 2025 16:17 UTC

32 points

70 comments5 min readLW link

Quantum Immortality: A Perspective if AI Doomers are Probably Right

avturchin and James_Miller

7 Nov 2024 16:06 UTC

13 points

55 comments14 min readLW link

Adam Smith Meets AI Doomers

James_Miller31 Jan 2024 15:53 UTC

35 points

10 comments5 min readLW link

Cortés, AI Risk, and the Dynamics of Competing Conquerors

James_Miller2 Jan 2024 16:37 UTC

14 points

3 comments3 min readLW link

Will Artificial Superintelligence Kill Us?

James_Miller23 May 2023 16:27 UTC

33 points

2 comments22 min readLW link

An Appeal to AI Superintelligence: Reasons to Preserve Humanity

James_Miller18 Mar 2023 16:22 UTC

43 points

74 comments12 min readLW link

James_Miller’s Shortform

James_Miller27 Sep 2021 11:38 UTC

9 points

27 comments1 min readLW link

Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate Trump: a model rationalist disagreement

James_Miller20 Jul 2017 0:18 UTC

2 points

13 comments1 min readLW link

(www.samharris.org)

Interview on IQ, genes, and genetic engineering with expert (Hsu)

James_Miller28 May 2017 22:19 UTC

7 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

LW mentioned in influential 2016 Milo article on the Alt-Right

James_Miller18 Mar 2017 19:30 UTC

10 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(www.breitbart.com)

The Psychology of Human Misjudgment by Charles T. Munger

James_Miller1 Mar 2017 1:34 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.hb.org)

Allegory On AI Risk, Game Theory, and Mithril

James_Miller13 Feb 2017 20:41 UTC

45 points

57 comments3 min readLW link

Dan Carlin six hour podcast on history of atomic weapons

James_Miller9 Feb 2017 16:10 UTC

7 points

16 comments1 min readLW link

(www.dancarlin.com)

Dodging a bullet: “the price of insufficient medical vigilance can be very high.”

James_Miller18 Jan 2017 4:11 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(westhunt.wordpress.com)