This story asks "How do you find out what you don't know you don't know?" If you've read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality then you'll probably like this story. If you haven't read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality then it may be confusing (but you might like it anyway).
This story explores a dystopic future where AI regulation is taken seriously. Perhaps too seriously.
This is the story of when I applied animal training methods to a friend. That's what friends are for, after all.
You know those people who spend decades on a Himalayan mountaintop meditating? What happens when you put one in a brain scanner?
How did life start? The primordial soup hypothesis is thermodynamically implausible. There is an alternative theory and it is nothing like anything alive today.
People used to die of pneumonia and tuberculosis all the time. In absolute terms, life is great and it's getting better.
Some people think ethical progress causes technical progress. I think it's the other way around.
Neuroscience and machine learning are converging. Scott Alexander replies here.
I wanted to talk to Eliezer Yudkowsky but he's a famous person with lots of demands on his time so I invented Simulated Eliezer Yudokowsky..