Cold Takes Audio

With great power comes, er, unclear responsibility and zero accountability. 

https://www.cold-takes.com/nonprofit-boards-are-weird-2/

How big a deal could AI misalignment be? About as big as it gets.

https://www.cold-takes.com/ai-could-defeat-all-of-us-combined/

Investigating important topics with laziness, impatience, hubris and self-preservation.

https://www.cold-takes.com/useful-vices-for-wicked-problems/

What kind of governance system should you set up, if you're starting from scratch and can do it however you want?

https://www.cold-takes.com/ideal-governance-for-companies-countries-and-more/

Preventing extinction would be good - but "saving 8 billion lives" good or "saving a trillion trillion trillion lives" good?

https://www.cold-takes.com/debating-myself-on-whether-extra-lives-lived-are-as-good-as-deaths-prevented/

A day in the life of trying to complete a self-assigned project with no clear spec or goal. 

https://www.cold-takes.com/the-wicked-problem-experience/

First in a series of dialogues on utilitarianism and "future-proof ethics."

https://www.cold-takes.com/defending-one-dimensional-ethics/

Ethics based on common sense seems to have a horrible historical track record. Can we do better?

https://www.cold-takes.com/future-proof-ethics/