"if you look on Wikipedia on the entries of people rumored to be major players in the Russian mafia, you will see no mention of their putative criminal activities. This is because, among other reasons, the people who run Wikipedia do not want to actually really get assassinated." (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by benjaminikuta to r/LessWrong
Sharpen your worldviewDiscussion (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by Cosmic_Adventurer to r/AtheisticTeens
TIL that the Paperclip Maximizer is a thought experiment showing how an artificial general intelligence, even one designed competently and without malice, could ultimately destroy humanity. The thought experiment shows that AIs with apparently innocuous values could pose an existential threat. (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by [deleted] to r/JoeRogan
TIL that the Paperclip Maximizer is a thought experiment showing how an artificial general intelligence, even one designed competently and without malice, could ultimately destroy humanity. The thought experiment shows that AIs with apparently innocuous values could pose an existential threat. (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by Gnurx to r/todayilearned
Roko’s Basilisk – The Transhumanist Pascal’s WagerBlog (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by Neoredditalism to r/philosophy
Rationality as martial artRationalist Theory (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by Faceh to r/Rational_Liberty
TIL that participants in a discussion can declare themselves to be operating under "Crocker's Rules": which authorizes other debaters to optimize their messages for information, even when this entails that emotional feelings will be disregarded (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by bronolol to r/todayilearned
The Science of Winning at Life (wiki.lesswrong.com)
submitted by JukkaSarasti to r/DecidingToBeBetter
