The Invereted Spectrum Thought Experiment is actually really stupid
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CMV: The Inverted Spectrum thought experiment is actually really stupid.
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What would you do in a moral trap where every option leads to complicity, death, or replacement by someone worse?
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Why couldn’t LLMs brute-force their way to real innovation?
Slate Star Codex was the former name for a blog by Scott Alexander about human cognition, politics, and medicine. In 2021, the name was changed to Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
Why Did It Take Humanity So Long to Discover Selective Breeding?
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Why Did It Take Humanity So Long to Discover Selective Breeding?
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Why Did It Take Humanity So Long to Discover Selective Breeding?
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Why Doesn’t China’s Entertainment Industry Achieve Global Success Like Its Tech Sector?
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CMV: The Middle East Going to be just fine
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Ivan Shishkin knew how to paint woods
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Is Evil Just a Lack of Information?
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Why has MAGA failed to rebuild America?
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Why has MAGA failed to rebuild America?
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Has the MAGA Movement Failed in Rebuilding America?
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Has the MAGA Movement Failed in Rebuilding America?
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Has the MAGA Movement Failed in Rebuilding America?
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Has the MAGA Movement Failed to Build America?
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MAGA doesn't build
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MAGA doesn't build
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Why was India sanctioned in 1998 even though the world knew India had nukes since 1974?
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Is Soft Authoritarianism the Natural Equilibrium of Societies?
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CMV: History is written by losers
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Dune 2 was pretty bad
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Why Doesn’t the 'Fail Fast' Approach Work in the Media Industry?
Slate Star Codex was the former name for a blog by Scott Alexander about human cognition, politics, and medicine. In 2021, the name was changed to Astral Codex Ten: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
Shizuka was masochist
DORAEMON is a manga created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and a famous franchise. The series is about an intelligent robot cat named Doraemon who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi.
