Anthropics

TagLast edit: 6 Jan 2022 16:12 UTC by Leo

Anthropics is the study of observation selection effects.

SIA > SSA, part 1: Learning from the fact that you exist

Joe_Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 6:58 UTC

16 points

2 comments16 min readEA link

Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox

Lukas Finnveden15 Feb 2019 10:47 UTC

72 points

4 comments41 min readEA link

Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model

Tristan Cook23 Apr 2022 0:36 UTC

137 points

27 comments51 min readEA link

Does the Self-Sampling Assumption Imply Clairvoyance?

Matthew Barber18 Sep 2024 22:09 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

SIA > SSA, part 4: In defense of the presumptuous philosopher

Joe_Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 7:00 UTC

8 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

In favor of more anthropics research

Eric Neyman15 Aug 2021 17:33 UTC

21 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

SIA > SSA, part 3: An aside on betting in anthropics

Joe_Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 6:59 UTC

10 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Anthropics and the Universal Distribution

Joe_Carlsmith28 Nov 2021 20:46 UTC

18 points

0 comments46 min readEA link

[Question] What is the reasoning behind the “anthropic shadow” effect?

tobycrisford 🔸3 Sep 2019 13:21 UTC

4 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Nuclear Fine-Tuning: How Many Worlds Have Been Destroyed?

Ember17 Aug 2022 13:13 UTC

18 points

28 comments23 min readEA link

SIA > SSA, part 2: Telekinesis, reference classes, and other scandals

Joe_Carlsmith1 Oct 2021 6:58 UTC

10 points

0 comments35 min readEA link

Is Our Universe A Newcomb’s Paradox Simulation?

Jordan Arel15 May 2022 7:28 UTC

16 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

EA reading list: population ethics, infinite ethics, anthropic ethics

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:22 UTC

25 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

On longtermism, Bayesianism, and the doomsday argument

iporphyry1 Sep 2022 0:27 UTC

30 points

5 comments13 min readEA link

A Pin and a Balloon: Anthropic Fragility Increases Chances of Runaway Global Warming

turchin11 Sep 2022 10:22 UTC

33 points

25 comments52 min readEA link

All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 16:57 UTC

217 points

47 comments8 min readEA link

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2020 PhilPapers Survey Results

RobBensinger2 Nov 2021 5:06 UTC

40 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

Don’t Be Comforted by Failed Apocalypses

ColdButtonIssues17 May 2022 11:20 UTC

20 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

AI Risk and Survivorship Bias—How Andreessen and LeCun got it wrong

stepanlos14 Jul 2023 17:10 UTC

5 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI

Chi3 Mar 2024 18:07 UTC

113 points

9 comments21 min readEA link

New eBook: Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures

Magnus Vinding4 Aug 2024 7:34 UTC

23 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Dispelling the Anthropic Shadow

Eli Rose8 Sep 2024 18:45 UTC

107 points

23 comments1 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Silent cosmic rulers

Magnus Vinding15 Jul 2024 17:07 UTC

37 points

16 comments9 min readEA link

[Opzionale] Tutte le possibili conclusioni sul futuro dell’umanità sono incredibili

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 14:59 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readEA link

Doomsday and objective chance

Global Priorities Institute30 Jun 2021 13:14 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Saving Average Utilitarianism from Tarsney - Self-Indication Assumption cancels solipsistic swamping.

wuschel16 May 2021 13:47 UTC

10 points

13 comments5 min readEA link

X-Risk, Anthropics, & Peter Thiel’s Investment Thesis

Jackson Wagner26 Oct 2021 18:38 UTC

50 points

1 comment19 min readEA link

Are we probably in the middle of humanity? (Five anthropics thought experiments)

carter allen🔸14 Mar 2024 18:45 UTC

9 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

Quantum Immortality: A Perspective if AI Doomers are Probably Right

turchin7 Nov 2024 16:06 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Does “Ultimate Neartermism” via Eternal Inflation dominate Longtermism in expectation?

Jordan Arel17 Aug 2024 22:09 UTC

15 points

12 comments4 min readEA link

Against Anthropic Shadow

tobycrisford 🔸3 Jun 2022 17:49 UTC

49 points

13 comments13 min readEA link

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Anthropics

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