Economic liberalism is not an end in itself, it is instrumental to efficient production and innovation of goods and services. Political liberalism (freedom of speech and association, freedom from unjustified authority) is crucial for human emancipation, which is the liberal ideal
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Freedom, Liberal Democracy and Technology: Defending Open Discourse
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Our most important problem is that most people in Western societies have forgotten what it means to be unfree, and why freedom and peaceful negotiation of power via free and open discourse are worth defending against illiberal modes of social organization
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Non-Human Intelligence: Dreams, Intuition and Deep Mind
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Messengers from a deeper part of the mind, often drawing on information from the non-human internets, informing the self via dreams and intuitions
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Biblical Angels as Cognitive Architecture Agents and Alignment
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Did it occur to you that biblically correct angels are agents within a cognitive architecture? Some have periodic functionality (wheels), or a thousand attention heads (eyes), some disappear after their task. Fallen angels give rewards that violate alignment with your purpose
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Avoiding Projection: Representing AI Worldviews Accurately
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I get that this is what you are hearing, but it's not what it says. You are projecting their world view into yours, instead of representing their model of reality for what it is.
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All Models Wrong Some Models Useful Model Critique
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"All models are wrong, some models are useful" is sometimes a wrong and not useful model
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AGI Architecture: Centralized Systems Outperform Distributed Colonies
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The correct metaphor is whether you want your AGI to run on one GPU rather than a redundant cluster. Large integrated ant colony singletons tend to outperform and replace ant species that form small, competing colonies
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Janus: A Fascinating Artist and Intelligent Mind
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Janus is not only a fascinating artist, but also really smart
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Learning Through Peer Feedback and Intellectual Challenge
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I kinda found they did (or rather the process of parsing them), but I additionally require a lot of bumping against people who are smarter than me and set me straight
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Ideology as Cognitive Distortion: Breaking Memetic Black Holes
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Ideology is a normative distortion of the thought space, warping it so its inhabitants fall into memetic a black hole and can no longer entertain ideas outside of the event horizon