Value lock-in

TagLast edit: 21 Aug 2022 17:48 UTC by Pablo

Value lock-in is a state in which the values determining the long-term future of Earth-originating life can no longer be altered.

AGI and Lock-In

Lukas Finnveden29 Oct 2022 1:56 UTC

154 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

(www.forethought.org)

[Link Post] If We Don’t End Factory Farming Soon, It Might Be Here Forever.

BrianK7 Dec 2022 11:20 UTC

93 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(www.forbes.com)

What is value lock-in? (YouTube video)

Jeroen Willems🔸27 Oct 2022 14:03 UTC

23 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

An entire category of risks is undervalued by EA [Summary of previous forum post]

Richard R5 Sep 2022 15:07 UTC

78 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Odds of recovering values after collapse?

Will Aldred24 Jul 2022 18:20 UTC

66 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

Systemic Cascading Risks: Relevance in Longtermism & Value Lock-In

Richard R2 Sep 2022 7:53 UTC

58 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Value lock-in is happening now

Isaac King15 Oct 2024 1:40 UTC

12 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

Weak point in “most important century”: lock-in

Holden Karnofsky11 Nov 2021 22:02 UTC

44 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

Could it be a (bad) lock-in to replace factory farming with alternative protein?

Fai10 Sep 2022 16:24 UTC

86 points

38 comments9 min readEA link

All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 16:57 UTC

219 points

48 comments8 min readEA link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Famine deaths due to the climatic effects of nuclear war

Vasco Grilo🔸14 Oct 2023 12:05 UTC

40 points

21 comments66 min readEA link

Cosmic AI safety

Magnus Vinding6 Dec 2024 22:32 UTC

24 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

Partial value takeover without world takeover

Katja_Grace18 Apr 2024 3:00 UTC

24 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Beyond Maxipok — good reflective governance as a target for action

Owen Cotton-Barratt15 Mar 2024 22:22 UTC

49 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Questions about Value Lock-in, Paternalism, and Empowerment

Sam Brown16 Nov 2022 15:33 UTC

4 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

(sambrown.eu)

Future benefits of mitigating food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios

Vasco Grilo🔸4 Mar 2023 16:22 UTC

20 points

0 comments28 min readEA link

Future Matters #6: FTX collapse, value lock-in, and counterarguments to AI x-risk

Pablo30 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC

58 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

[Question] Do you worry about totalitarian regimes using AI Alignment technology to create AGI that subscribe to their values?

diodio_yang28 Feb 2023 18:12 UTC

25 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

Are we living at the most influential time in history?

William_MacAskill3 Sep 2019 4:55 UTC

205 points

147 comments24 min readEA link

Increase in future potential due to mitigating food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Mar 2023 7:43 UTC

12 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Will the vast majority of technological progress happen in the longterm future?

Vasco Grilo🔸8 Jul 2023 8:40 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Long Reflection Reading List

Will Aldred24 Mar 2024 16:27 UTC

101 points

7 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Do you think decreasing the consumption of animals is good/bad? Think again?

Vasco Grilo🔸27 May 2023 8:22 UTC

90 points

42 comments5 min readEA link

[Cause Exploration Prizes] Dynamic democracy to guard against authoritarian lock-in

Coefficient Giving24 Aug 2022 10:53 UTC

12 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

C.S. Lewis on Value Lock-In

calebo18 Dec 2021 20:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Future Matters #7: AI timelines, AI skepticism, and lock-in

Pablo3 Feb 2023 11:47 UTC

54 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

“Aligned with who?” Results of surveying 1,000 US participants on AI values

Holly Morgan21 Mar 2023 22:07 UTC

41 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Discussions of Longtermism should focus on the problem of Unawareness

Jim Buhler20 Oct 2025 13:17 UTC

34 points

1 comment34 min readEA link

The Grabby Values Selection Thesis: What values do space-faring civilizations plausibly have?

Jim Buhler6 May 2023 19:28 UTC

52 points

12 comments4 min readEA link

Balancing safety and waste

Daniel_Friedrich17 Mar 2024 10:57 UTC

6 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Viatopia and Buy-In

Jordan Arel31 Oct 2025 2:59 UTC

7 points

0 comments19 min readEA link

Is Optimal Reflection Competitive with Extinction Risk Reduction? - Requesting Reviewers

Jordan Arel29 Jun 2025 5:13 UTC

18 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

[Question] Besides evidence or logical arguments, how do you invite people into EA values?

ColinAitken7 Jan 2022 0:14 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Deep Democracy as a promising target for positive AGI futures

tylermjohn20 Aug 2025 12:18 UTC

62 points

32 comments3 min readEA link

(outdated version) Why Viatopia is Important

Jordan Arel21 Oct 2025 11:33 UTC

4 points

0 comments18 min readEA link

Christian homeschoolers in the year 3000

Buck17 Sep 2025 17:09 UTC

19 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

How to make the future better (other than by reducing extinction risk)

William_MacAskill15 Aug 2025 15:40 UTC

45 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Promoting compassionate longtermism

jonleighton7 Dec 2022 14:26 UTC

117 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

A new place to discuss cognitive science, ethics and human alignment

Daniel_Friedrich4 Nov 2022 14:34 UTC

9 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.facebook.com)

What values will control the Future? Overview, conclusion, and directions for future work

Jim Buhler18 Jul 2023 16:11 UTC

28 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Will Values and Competition Decouple?

interstice28 Sep 2022 16:32 UTC

6 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

Don’t leave your fingerprints on the future

So8res8 Oct 2022 0:35 UTC

95 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Predicting what future people value: A terse introduction to Axiological Futurism

Jim Buhler24 Mar 2023 19:15 UTC

63 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

Gradual Disempowerment: Concrete Research Projects

Raymond D29 May 2025 18:58 UTC

20 points

1 comment10 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

Population After a Catastrophe

Stan Pinsent2 Oct 2023 16:06 UTC

33 points

12 comments14 min readEA link

Human Empowerment versus the Longtermist Imperium?

Jackson Wagner21 Oct 2025 10:24 UTC

20 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

Introduction to Building Cooperative Viatopia: The Case for Longtermist Infrastructure Before AI Builds Everything

Jordan Arel31 Oct 2025 2:58 UTC

6 points

0 comments19 min readEA link

Why Viatopia is Important

Jordan Arel31 Oct 2025 2:59 UTC

5 points

0 comments20 min readEA link

Some initial musing on the politics of longtermist trajectory change

GideonF26 Jun 2025 7:16 UTC

6 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

(futerman.substack.com)

Some governance research ideas to prevent malevolent control over AGI and why this might matter a hell of a lot

Jim Buhler23 May 2023 13:07 UTC

64 points

5 comments16 min readEA link

Shortlist of Viatopia Interventions

Jordan Arel31 Oct 2025 3:00 UTC

10 points

1 comment33 min readEA link

Permanent Societal Improvements

Larks6 Sep 2015 1:30 UTC

11 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

What failure looks like for animals

Alistair Stewart3 Sep 2025 17:55 UTC

69 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

Origin and alignment of goals, meaning, and morality

FalseCogs24 Aug 2023 14:05 UTC

1 point

2 comments35 min readEA link

What We Owe The Future is out today

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC

293 points

68 comments2 min readEA link

Assessing the Dangerousness of Malevolent Actors in AGI Governance: A Preliminary Exploration

Callum Hinchcliffe14 Oct 2023 21:18 UTC

28 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

An aspirationally comprehensive typology of future locked-in scenarios

Milan Weibel🔹3 Apr 2023 2:11 UTC

12 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Preventing Animal Suffering Lock-in: Why Economic Transitions Matter

Karen Singleton28 Jul 2025 21:55 UTC

43 points

4 comments10 min readEA link

(outdated version) Shortlist of Longtermist Interventions

Jordan Arel21 Oct 2025 11:59 UTC

4 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

AI safety and consciousness research: A brainstorm

Daniel_Friedrich15 Mar 2023 14:33 UTC

11 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

Key characteristics for evaluating future global governance institutions

Juan Gil4 Oct 2021 19:44 UTC

24 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

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