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Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.

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  Letting go of the belief that grasping brings satisfaction makes a person happier but more alienated from others.

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  The more you drop this idea, the happier you are, and the more alien you feel.

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Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.

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  Social media put public discourse in the hands of society's biggest assholes and idiots just as an alien superintelligence arrives.

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  Social media put our entire discourse in the hands of our society's biggest assholes and idiots, just in time for the arrival of an alien superintelligence

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Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  Because we do not have good alignment technology, we are choosing to build an alien mind with its own values and gamble on it instead of building a tool.

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  we are making a trade-off where because we don't have very good alignment technology. We are going to like make an alien mind with its own values and then gamble on that to some extent rather than doing this other approach of making like a tool that pursues individual user intention.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Eisenhorn

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  It's pretty decently adequate, as mind candy. There are places where Abnett shows flashes of real talent. (To avoid spoilers, I'll just say: The first alien planet; the opening scenes with the cranky biologist.) There are other aspects of the novels which are pretty unsatisfying.

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Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  Biology has already handed us an alien library: hundreds of millions of protein machines we do not understand and can only study one at a time.

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  we've been gifted uh just this incredible variety of machines which we don't understand really at all and we just have to go and sort of try and understand them on a you know, one-by-one basis.

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Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  The Player of Games

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  The Player of Games by Ian M. Banks is about a champion board-game player who gets roped into an espionage operation infiltrating an alien culture where political power is determined by the outcome of a uniquely complex strategy game. Set in a far-future human civilization run by a constellation of (mostly) benevolent and inscrutable AIs, Banks's science fiction is more relevant than ever.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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  Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance I'd get IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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  Dyson Big+Quiet

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  Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance I'd get IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic Realms; writes the newsletter Counter Craft on fiction craft and the publishing industry.

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  The Employees

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  Olga Ravn's The Employees (trans. by Martin Aitken) that takes the form of employee interview transcripts on a spaceship that has encountered bizarre alien life.

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Reinforcement-learning researcher; co-wrote the field's standard textbook, wrote The Bitter Lesson, and shared the 2024 Turing Award.

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  Whether AI is our offspring to be proud of or an alien to be horrified by is a choice we make, not a fact we discover.

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  It's our choice whether we should say oh they are our offspring and we should be proud of them and we should celebrate their achievements or we should we could say oh no they're not us and we should be horrified.

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