After you died, you would be transported back and forth in time and get to be each of the other people who ever lived, one at a time, but with no recollection of your other lives? You had lived your entire life once already, and got to the end and achieved disappointingly few of your goals, and had now been given the chance to go back and try one more time? You were invisible and nobody would ever notice you? Everyone around you was naked under their clothes? 8230;you just came into existe.

I am a researcher at OpenAI. I recently finished my PhD in the theory of computing group at UC Berkeley, advised by Umesh Vazirani.

On October 18, 2015. On April 19, 2014. Having to memorize unnatural keyboard shortcuts.

We are convinced that doing something meaningful and helping others for their own sake is also the best we can do for ourselves! Effective Altruism Austria is a local chapter of.

Lessons learned from modeling AI takeoffs, and a call for collaboration. I intend to write about much of this in more depth, but since. Is coming up I want a simple description to point to here. New intuitions around AI risk.

Studying life, sharing what I learn. Philosophy, evolutionary psychology, dance. Notice there is a difference. Continue reading The Loose Ends. How Much Money Does 1 Hour of Happiness Cost? April 23, 2016. Luckily Continue reading How Much Money Does 1 Hour of Happiness Cost? The Inescapability of My Altruism.

Seven years of bad luck for breaking a mirror. Not really sure about this one but who wants broken mirrors? Mirrors are probably pretty hard to make. My hope with this article is that it produces a Baader-Meinhof effect. The thought to which all thoughts ev.

Compilation of helpful books, links, resources, etc.