Recently I was having a conversation about where are the missing billionaires, a book which questions why there are so few descendants of historical magnates with fortunes equal or comparable to their founders. I.e. why the fortunes of e.g. Rockefeller descendants do not match that of the original Rockefeller (although...
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Gradual Disempowerment Might Not Be So Bad
In lesswrong-style alignment terminology we generally talk about gradual disempowerment of humanity as one of the default bad outcomes. The idea here is that AIs will slowly automate more and more jobs and slowly take over the economy. Ultimately this will result in the concerted economic influence and decision making...
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Whence Human Talents Neurobiologically?
Epistemic status: Just something I was musing over. I don’t have any answers to this.
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Space Warfare Seems Mostly Defense Dominant
Epistemic status: I’ve done some thinking and research on this but I am not a physicist and I can easily be wrong about specific things.
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Continual learning explains some interesting phenomena in human memory
Epistemic Status: Far from certain and mostly speculation, but it does make sense.
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