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When the Dalai Lama dies, I hear they search for a child who is presumed to be his reincarnation. Whether or not you believe in reincarnation, if a person dies, there is still a child out there who is most similar in personality to the deceased, by some measure. If...
Talking to a friend today, she complained about someone wanting her help with a project when that person didn’t even know what the point of the project was. Prima facie that does sound kind of objectionable. But is it? People definitely do a lot of things without much explicit account...
I just got back from a few days of workshop and backpacking but am not in much of a mind to talk about it, so I ask you this question that is very far from my current mood, but which I was reminded of by the demands of relaxing upon...
A big source of externalities I’m not sure I’ve heard mentioned as such: people caring about one another. For a random person, I’d guess the unaccounted for effects on other people from their making different private decisions about their lives while being cared about by numerous family and friends might...
Drafted March 6 2025 I have thought for many years that it is a risky thing to have a partner who is into creating things, lest you be called upon to appreciate those things, and everyone’s preferred narrative about the situation slams head-on into the realistic odds that you especially...
When I talk to people about what might be done about AI threatening approximately everything that everyone cares about, I notice a common oddity in their resistance to a variety of ideas. They seem to take for granted that certain entities—especially Trump and China—would be acting against their own interests,...
I was on Peter Scott’s podcast, Artificial Intelligence and You and our discussion apparently took two episodes! (Quotes from Peter about what we discussed) June 15: https://aiandyou.net/e/313-guest-katja-grace-ai-impact-researcher-part-1/ > We talk about what’s driving Katja to do this work, the fundamental risks that she sees in AI, AI evolving unexpected goals,...