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After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the second publication in my series of intended posts about religion. Thanks...

After the release of Ben Pace's extended interview with me about my views on religion, I felt inspired to publish more of my thinking about religion in a format that's more detailed, compact, and organized. This post is the first publication in my series of intended posts about religion. Thanks...

Introduction from Ben Zhukeepa is a LessWronger who I respect and whose views I'm interested in. In 2018 he wrote the first broadly successful explication of Paul Christiano's research ideas for AI alignment, has spent a lot of time interviewing people in AI about their perspectives, and written some more...

From one of justinpombrio’s comments on Jessica Taylor’s review of the CTMU: > I was hoping people other than Jessica would share some specific curated insights they got [from the CTMU]. Syndiffeonesis is in fact a good insight. The reply I'd drafted to this comment ended up ballooning into a...

There’s been a lot of discussion about whether the pandemic lockdowns have been worth it. However, much of the reasoning that we’ve seen has been very motivated and un-nuanced in a way that for us has distorted a lot of the information. So this is not a thread for taking...

How uniform is the neocortex? The neocortex is the part of the human brain responsible for higher-order functions like sensory perception, cognition, and language, and has been hypothesized to be uniformly composed of general-purpose data-processing modules. What does the currently available evidence suggest about this hypothesis? "How uniform is the...

Humans are capable of feats of cognition that appear qualitatively more sophisticated than those of any other animals. Is this appearance of a qualitative difference indicative of human brains being essentially more complex than the brains of any other animal? Or is this “qualitative difference” illusory, with the vast majority...