Sep 30, 2020
Integrating Evolutionary Psychology and Behaviorism
Summary - All of us want to change other people's behavior to align more closely with our goals. Over the last century, behaviorists have discovered how reward and punishment change the behavior of organisms. The central idea of this talk is that we are intuitive...
Sep 28, 2020
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A lot of libertarians and anarcho-capitalists envision a future of small corporate states competing for migrants and capital by trying to have the best policies.
But the Internet is about as close to that vision as we’re likely to find outside the pages of a political philosophy textbook. And I am far from...
Sep 21, 2020
[Epistemic status: something I’ve been thinking about recently. There’s a lot of complication around these issues and this is more to start a discussion than to present any settled solution]
There’s a scene in Fiddler on the Roof where Tevye is describing his peaceful little town. He says they never fight –...
Sep 17, 2020
Connor Leahy discusses the idea of an 'AGI Fire Alarm' and argues GPT-3 might be the last such warning we'll receive before it's too late to act.
Sep 13, 2020
Suppose a lot of that stuff about bravery debates is right.
That lots of the advice people give is useful for some people, but that the opposite advice is useful for other people.
For example, “You need to stop being so hard on yourself, remember you are your own worst critic” versus “Stop making excuses for...