Anthropic's alignment lead puts AI extinction risk above 10%
In a 2024 survey of nearly 3,000 AI researchers, over half put the odds of AI causing human extinction or disempowerment at 10 per cent or more.
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Judith Jarvis Thomson named the trolley problem, then doubted it
The philosopher who named the trolley problem later said you may not pull the switch unless you would steer it into yourself. West Point still teaches it.
Stoicism was a test of control, not a mood
Stoicism sorts what you can act on from what you cannot. A Vietnam prisoner of war and Roman rebels both lived by that test.
Wittgenstein argued a truly private word can never be corrected
Wittgenstein argued a language only one person could understand fails, because nothing outside that person could catch a wrong use of a word.
Bernard Williams used Gauguin to put luck into morality
In his 1976 essay on moral luck, Bernard Williams asked if Gauguin's success could justify leaving his family. Critics say it barely weighs the harm done.