“Rigor Mortis” is a book about the reproducibility crisis in science, and the various possible causes of the crisis. The book contains snippets of interviews with scientists in various fields that Harris has conducted. Many of the quotes from the interviews are illuminating.
The main focus in the book is…
The problem with superintelligence is that you can’t predict how it will behave. It might behave in a way that is detrimental to humanity. One approach to this problem is to try to code benevolence into the operating system of the AI. There is a project in Berkeley led by…
Academia’s mission is to get every academic paper ever written on the internet, available for free, and to develop a more rigorous and efficient peer review system. …
