[ExI] Series of blog posts on this email list, origins of Bitcoin, problems with Yudkowki, effective altruism, and more

[Max More]

This series of seven posts is extremely interesting. Anyone with history on this email list will at least want to read part 1 and dip into the others. Eliezer comes in for a serious drubbing for the cultlike activities surrounding his interlinked communities and for his doomerism.

 Chapter 1, “The Wunderkind<https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-1-the-wunderkind>”;
Chapter 2, “This Demon-Haunted World<https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-2-demon-haunted-world>”;
Chapter 3, “Extropicoin Extrapolated<https://aiascendant.substack.com/extropias-children-chapter-3-extropicoin>”;
Chapter 4, “What You Owe The Future<https://aiascendant.substack.com/extropias-children-chapter-4-what-you-owe>”;
Chapter 5, “Irrationalism<https://aiascendant.substack.com/extropias-children-chapter-5-irrationalism>”;
Chapter 6, “Slate Star Cortex and the Geeks for Monarchy<https://aiascendant.substack.com/extropias-children-chapter-6-geeks-for-monarchy>.”)
Extropia's Children, Chapter 7
The Inferno of the Nerds
https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-7
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Extropia's Children, Chapter 7: The Inferno of the Nerds<https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapter-7>
What really is the fabled AI x-risk? Will our meddling with artificial intelligence cause us to inadvertently create a dread superintelligent godlike entity which will destroy us all? Or are there other AI risks we should worry about more?
aiascendant.substack.com



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