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I would be interested to hear more about the assumptions that would imply climate change ends civilization within your lifetime.…
There is a lot to reflect on here but, having already commented enough, I won’t. Just one thing on climate…
Lovely to read these reflections on David, who was a wonderful man. He taught me as an undergraduate and was…
Thank you, David, for crafting this “normie” case for taking AI safety concerns very seriously. It’s very helpful. I’m going…
I’ll stay out of the math debate and stipulate that I mostly agree with David’s main post, but i think…
Point taken, David. That said, I think the arch tone of the NYT comment directs our attention not so much…
On recursive self-improvement: to be worried about it, all you need to believe is that it will probably speed up…
Thanks, no doubt, to kind links from Orin Kerr and Larry Solum, my lecture on “The End of Empire: Dworkin and Jurisprudence in the 21st Century” was downloaded more than 550 times in the first 24 hours it was on-line. Wow! I wish all my articles got this much attention.
UPDATE: This is even more amusing–after about 30 hours, it’s already 14th on the list of “all time” most downloaded articles in Jurisprudence & Legal Philosophy at SSRN!
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