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The original sequences were a series of essays written by Eliezer Yudkowsky between 2006 and 2009 on the blogs Overcoming Bias and Less Wrong. About half of these essays were organized into a number of thematically linked "sequences" of blog posts--hence the name. In 2015, these sequences were edited into an ebook, Rationality: From AI to Zombies. The ebook leaves out some of the original ...
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (/ ˌ ɛ l i ˈ ɛ z ər ˌ j ʌ d ˈ k aʊ s k i / EH-lee-EH-zər YUD-KOW-skee; born September 11, 1979) is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics, best known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence.
Chapter 122: Something to Protect: Hermione Granger. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a Harry Potter rational fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher and decision theorist. The book is also available in audiobook version here. This is an Alternate Universe story, where Petunia married a scientist.
Apr 24, 2023 · 110. Eliezer Yudkowsky predicts doom from AI: that humanity faces likely extinction in the near future (years or decades) from a rogue unaligned superintelligent AI system. Moreover he predicts that this is the default outcome, and AI alignment is so incredibly difficult that even he failed to solve it.
Jun 5, 2022 · AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities. Eliezer Yudkowsky. AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities. Created with Sketch. Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Preamble: (If you're already familiar with all basics and don't want any preamble, skip ahead to Section Bfor technical difficulties of alignment proper.)
Fiction isn't literal truth, but when done well it captures truths and intuitions that are difficult to explain directly. (It’s also damn fun to read.) > “Nonfiction conveys knowledge, fiction conveys experience.” - Eliezer Yudkowsky Eliezer Yudkowsky helped kickstart the genre of rationalist fiction, which is about characters who solve the problems in their world by thinking, in a way ...
Cryonics is the practice of preserving people who are dying in liquid nitrogen soon after their heart stops. The idea is that most of your brain's information content is still intact right after you've "died", i.e. medical death or legal death. If humans invent molecular nanotechnology or brain emulation techniques, it may be possible to reconstruct the consciousness of cryopreserved patients ...
