Beren's Blog

There’s been a lot of hullabaloo about the recent revelations that the Pentagon still has/had a program investigating UFOs and the recently released footage of UFO encounters accompanying it, and furthermore, the suggestion that the aerospace contractor behind it has recovered some actual material from the UFO sites. [Read More]

Although it’s been a while since my last post on List, I recently found a draft of a bunch of relatively disconnected thoughts left over from the earlier post, so I thought I would clean them up and publish them. [Read More]

This is broadly the thesis I have been working on for my dissertation. Now it’s time to start seriously writing up, I thought I’d try writing it down in an informal blog setting first, before translating it into science-ese. [Read More]

A big factor in AI risk is the possibility of recursive self improvement. An AI is created with some level of intelligence and it uses that intelligence to research AI techniques to make itself more intelligent, and then as it is more intelligent, it becomes better at researching ways to... [Read More]

Here I just want to add a brief addendum to my previous post. One fascinating line of arguments in favour of moral realism compares morality to mathematics. The argument, in simplistic terms, runs roughly as follows: [Read More]