RedMan

I was at LessOnline, it was awesome. When I got home, I discovered that there was a shooting (two random people were violently attacked by a gang of '4-6 people') in a parking lot near my house Sunday evening. That parking lot serves two of my favorite restaurants and my...

Given that 'Seize control of the capital markets and use that unlimited funding to...' is on the critical path for a number of superintelligence doom scenarios, this paper might be interesting to the safety community. IOSCO is an international body for coordinating capital market regulators, so this represents their collective...

With the smartphone apps for location and contact tracing being normalized for fighting coronavirus, it opens up space for using the same techniques to fight other diseases. HIV, Syphilis, and drug resistant gonorrhea are obvious candidates because they do not have non-human hosts. Instrumentation would be easy. Generate a database...

I have a dangerous idea which, unlike most of my dangerous ideas, is unencumbered by any laws or non-disclosure agreements, so I can dispose of it as I wish. In order to demonstrate that I do in fact have a dangerous idea, I would obviously have to disclose it, but...

I need help getting out of a logical trap I've found myself in after reading The Age of Em. Some statements needed to set the trap: If mind-uploading is possible, then a mind can theoretically exist for an arbitrary length of time. If a mind is contained in software, it...