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| Rationalism | An ideology that emerged from the LessWrong website, founded by Eliezer Yudkowsky in 2009. Rationalists focus on …119. Kurzweil, 2005; Goertzel, 2010, p. 227; Bostrom, 2009a; Shin, 2023. Benjamin Hilton, “Preventing an AI-related catastrophe,” at https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/artificial-intelligence/, accessed 31 January 2024. See also Scott …
Scott Alexander
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Scott Alexander is a prominent rationalist blogger and effective altruist thinker who engages with questions about AI risk and technological governance from an evidence-focused perspective. He appears here as a touchstone for contemporary debates about whether and how to constrain AI development, positioned alongside institutional voices like 80,000 Hours in discussions of existential risk mitigation. His work exemplifies how rationalist reasoning communities translate abstract concerns about superintelligence into concrete policy arguments within the effective altruism movement.
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