Post singularity dreams - Part 1, Robot Night Watchman
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Why Vice Signal?
Many people engage in "Vice Signalling", where they will intentionally do actions which are considered to be bad according to some social norm or morality system. Recently this has become a bit more common on the right of the political spectrum and more people have been calling it
Software engineering is unusually easy for AIs
Most white collar tasks are not like software engineering
Alien Assumptions
When people think about aliens, they make a number of assumptions which I think are wrong. These are likely imported from science fiction and by not thinking clearly about the future of human development. I'm particularly interested in assumptions people make about aliens who may be watching Earth
AI "computer use" is not very secure right now
An overview of why I find the tools worrying and would not personally use an LLM based tool which can use my computer "as me" (for now). Code Injection Primer One of the foundations of computer security is the ability of a system to distinguish between the program
Products and services I recommend you buy and use
Inspired by the many, many others of these ( e.g. Mr Bowman ). No referral links because I can't be bothered. Products Foot warmer : DO YOUR FEET GET COLD? If so, you may benefit from a foot warmer. I found that, particularly while working from home, my feet would
What is it like to be a Hive Mind?
(And other questions about Pluribus, spoilers throughout, up to date as of episode 8) In the hit Apple TV show "Pluribus", SETI picks up a signal containing a DNA sequence for a virus, which when released by stupid scientists merges all but 13 people into a global Mind
California Travelogue
Bay Area Quality of life seems good overall, nice climate, nice food and things to do. I could see myself living there. We spent a lot of time in the Berkeley area which was nice and suburban for the most part (sorry YIMBYs) The homelessness in Berkeley was "tolerable&
Digital people could make AI safer
I claim that accelerating the development of "Whole Brain Emulation" would reduce the risks posed by AI.
Breaking into software development
If you want to be a software developer and you have not already done a computer science degree, do a coding bootcamp. I did one and it was great.
Thoughts on my personality
This is likely of interest only to myself and a few others. It's always interesting to think about what traits are foundational to a person, and which are generated by the foundational traits. It's possible that foundations don't exist, or that they're
UFOs are probably nothing
The recent rash of UFO interest is not unprecedented and you shouldn't conclude much from it
2020 Donations
TL;DR I'm giving away £35k this year. £3.5k to SCI and the remainder to the Long Term Future Fund. I normally write myself a few pages on how I'm thinking about donations for the present year. As an experiment I've
Mars as an x-risk reduction strategy
Note 1: This is an old post I wrote in 2019, I have moved it here because I find the need to send it to people. Note 2: I rediscovered this post on the EA forum which is probably where I got most of my inspiration from, the comments are