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Story concept: AU where capitalism actually works the way the illiberal left thinks it does. Almost the entire economy is still medieval peasants in mud huts; their crops are scarce

I realize this take of mine may be controversial, but the modern collapse of sexual desire does seem to suggest that our civilization has become bored with vanilla sex and

hasnobody else noticedthat the mainstream medialiterally assigned themselvesthe role of calling US electionsbecauseI don't think that's how the system should worknot saying they called it wrongjustnot how the system should

The *ideal* video compression algorithm, fed random bytes to decompress, will produce a normal movie with a coherent plot. Contemplating this may help make clear why “compression is intelligence”. It’s

A very rare bit of research that is directly, straight-up relevant to real alignment problems! They trained a reward function on human preferences AND THEN measured how hard you could

I've never before seen a Twitter poll in which the correct answer got so few votes! My hypothesis was that since chocolate = white chocolate + dark chocolate, people would

What do we early-warning cognoscenti now know about Covid-19 that others haven't currently figured out? What's the TOC of that blog post? @WilliamAEden @robinhanson My stab at a TOC:1: The

Is the US presidential election a foregone conclusion, in your view? For the 1/3 of respondents saying it's over in favor of Trump, please bet Zvi. For the 3% of