Archive - Cognition Café

The Ideological Spiral

A natural consequence of living in a democracy

Jun 13 •

Excuses and foregone conclusions

In this post I talk about excuses.

Jun 9 •

May 2025

A Simple Case for Studying Morals

Morals are hard. Studying them improve things for everyone, collectively and individually.

May 22 •

AI Alignment based on Intentions does not work

Whether someone wants to be good to someone else, and whether they are actually good for them, are two very different questions.

May 20 •

Compulsions, Traumas, Trolls, and Entropy

Know your enemy.

May 13 •

The Ethics of Superintelligence

We haven't developed them.

May 7 •

"Incentives" is Astrology for Nerds

A short follow-up rant to intentions-based reasoning.

May 6 •

Intention-based reasoning

May 4 •

December 2024

The three main AI Safety stances

Does aligning LLMs translate to aligning superintelligence?

Dec 26, 2024 •

A common type of time sink

A common failure mode in which people sink large amounts of time and effort into distractions.

Dec 21, 2024 •

Ideologies are slow.

Don't dumb yourself by thinking through ideologies.

Dec 21, 2024 •

November 2024

On trying to do something by frowning really hard

There is a very common pattern that people can engage in when they fail to perform an action that they want to perform.

Nov 5, 2024 •

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