Garden, campfire, healing water.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/06/18/loving-a-world-you-dont-trust

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

Examining a certain kind of meaning-laden receptivity to the world.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/25/on-attunement

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)

Examining a philosophical vibe that I think contrasts in interesting ways with "deep atheism."

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)

What does it take to avoid tyranny towards to the future?

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/18/on-the-abolition-of-man

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)

Let's be the sort of species that aliens wouldn't fear the way we fear paperclippers.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/16/being-nicer-than-clippy/

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)

Who isn't a paperclipper?

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/11/an-even-deeper-atheism

This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

Examining Robin Hanson's critique of the AI risk discourse.

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/09/does-ai-risk-other-the-ais

This essay is part of a series of essays called "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

On the connection between deep atheism and seeking control. 

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/08/when-yang-goes-wrong

This essay is part of a series of essays called "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

On a certain kind of fundamental mistrust towards Nature. 

Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/04/deep-atheism-and-ai-risk

This is the second essay in my series “Otherness and control in the age of AGI. I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi

AIs as fellow creatures. And on getting eaten. 

Link: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/gentleness-and-the-artificial-other

This is the first essay in a series of essays that I’m calling “Otherness and control in the age of AGI.” See here for more about the series as a whole: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi.