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On the Brutality of Amdahl's Law

Following my 3-week visit to Berkeley as described here and featured by ACX here , I told various people I would write in detail why I didn’t stick around to work in AI safety. In this post, I will dance around one object-level disagreement with AI safety and rationalists: why I no longer believe in explosive world transformation due to ASI. There will eventually be follow-up pieces on more object-level arguments and meta-level arguments against AI safety, but I prefer for this post to be mostly self-contained and not explicitly about AI safety. When I worked in theoretical physics research, I

LessWrong · EN

The First Foreign Astronaut Will Visit China's Tiangong Space Station in Two Weeks

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) will be taking a Pakistani astronaut to Tiangong as part of the Shenzou 24 mission, marking the first time a foreign astronaut has been to the station.

Universe Today · EN

Show HN: EarthData – find places to visit or live that match what you care about

Hi HN, A few years ago, I was trying to find the place on Earth that had the optimal combination of attributes to vacation to or live. I couldn't find anything that wasn't a marketing funnel or was limited in geography. So I built EarthData essentially for myself, but others might find it useful. There are two modes: "visit" for a trip (travel month, length of stay, things to do) and "live" for relocation or retirement (housing, healthcare, day-to-day fit). The way it operates is to allow the user to sculpt the attributes they care about in where they visit on vacation or live. Rate and rank w

Show HN · EN

Why Might Aliens Visit Earth?

I did a web search on the above phrase, in prep for a podcast, and in ten pages of results didn’t find anything I thought reasonable.

Overcoming Bias · EN