Archive - Cognition Café

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 •

September 2024

Core Disagreements in the AGI Discourse

Moving beyond stale debates to focus on core disagreements

Sep 1, 2024 •

August 2024

Rethinking Superintelligence

Reframing superintelligence: beyond individual geniuses to collective intelligence.

Aug 28, 2024 •

About Brain Lateralisation

Challenging the symbolic Left-Brain Right-Brain Dichotomy

Aug 23, 2024 •

About the Progress Studies Movement

The balance between Action and Reflection

Aug 15, 2024 •

The Source of Happiness

Tracing the causal chain to Happiness and nailing it down.

Aug 11, 2024 •

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