Cognition Café

The Spectre haunting the "AI Safety" Community

A consistent failure of informing lawmakers and laypeople about extinction risks.

16 hrs ago • Gabe

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[GUEST] Action, Knowledge, and Oppression

Doing nothing is very easy

Feb 19 • remember

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[GUEST] Desires, Porn and Envy

What is easier than wanting things? Wanting nothing at all.

Feb 17 • remember

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Against Epistemic Humility and for Epistemic Precision

How mindlessly hedging our beliefs weakens us.

Feb 16 • Gabe

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Human Fine-Tuning

What do you call the thing that includes all of learning, operant conditioning and trauma?

Feb 14 • Gabe

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Terminal Cynicism

How negativity erodes our institutions.

Feb 12 • Gabe

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January 2026

Abstract Idealism

On the mistake of loving the world only as it could be, and not for what it is.

Jan 21 • Gabe

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How to think about enemies: the example of Greenpeace

Recognising opposition without demonisation.

Jan 19 • Gabe

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October 2025

AI Timelines and Points of no return

The final Point of no return may happen before superintelligence.

Oct 19, 2025 • Gabe

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"Default Trajectory", an AI omnicide story

A mundane story where AI development ends up killing everyone.

Oct 2, 2025 • Gabe

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September 2025

We are likely in an AI overhang, and this is bad.

How unknown capabilities in AI models may undermine most AI safety frameworks.

Sep 23, 2025 • Gabe

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How people politically confront the Modern Eldritch

A follow-up to "The Eldritch in the 21st century"

Sep 18, 2025 • Gabe

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