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A sign at the Misalignment Museum apologizes, “Sorry for killing most of humanity.” The museum is devoted to artificial general intelligence, or super smart...

Effective altruism was a key selling point for the failed crypto exchange. Now it must reassess its future without donations from Sam Bankman-Fried.

Elevator pitch: Bring enough light to simulate daylight into your home and office.

This article presents an emerging architectural hypothesis of the brain as a biological implementation of aUniversal Learning Machine. I present a rough but complete architectural view of how the brain works under the universal learning hypothesis. I also contrast this new viewpoint - which comes from computational neuroscience and machine learning - with the older evolved modularity hypothesis popular in evolutionary psychology and the heuristics and biases literature. These two conceptions of ...

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