Summary of Bostrom's "Vulnerable World Hypothesis"

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We might live in a vulnerable world: in the future we 

Summary of OvercomingBias "Against Voter Foresight"

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When a future tech is foreseen too long before it happens, it becomes a subject of heated public debate, which hinders its potential positive aspects.

2 arguments that wealth could lead to happiness despite polls not showing this very clearly (Tyler Cowen)

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- poorer people have lower standards

Summary of "Dissolving the Fermi Paradox" (Bostrom, Sandberg, Drexler, 2018)

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Although the expected number of intelligent civilizations is high with our current estimates of the Drake equation's parameters, taking our uncertainties into account results in a substantial probability of us being alone in the observable universe.

(LW) def reductionism

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We use different levels of physical reality for computation, but physical reality only has one level

def unilateralist's curse

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When many actors could perform an action that could have negative consequences on everyone and that shouldn't be done, one of the actors is bound to make a mistake and do it

past example of an unambiguously wrong decision resulting from the unilateralist's curse

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Introducing rabbits in Australia

an area where the unilateralist's curse is most prominent

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information hazard

(SSC) Summary of "Rule thinkers in, not out"

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We should accept individuals who can come up with at least some brilliant ideas, not reject individuals who are wrong somewhere.

doomsday argument

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2 urns with balls numbered 1..10 and 1..1,000,000. An urn picked, then a ball picked: 7. Then we should guess to have picked the first urn.

execute the string str as a command

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eval str

"everything except file1"

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[^file1]*

any digit

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\d

any non-digit

regex

\D

any character

regex

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match a single a, b, or c

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[abc]

what does [abc] do?

regex

match a single a, or b, or c

match any single character that is not an a, b or c

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[^abc]

any alphanumeric character

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\w

\w

regex

any alphanumeric character