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• AI Safety (1)

  The study of how we can ensure that smarter-than-human artificial intelligence will be aligned with our values and have positive impacts on the world.

• Book Reviews (2)
• Cryonics (1)

  Cryonics is an experimental extension of emergency medicine. Using cryopreservation, a person who is beyond help by today's medicine is preserved for decades or centuries until a future medical technology can revive and restore them to full health.

• Cultural Tools (1)

  Cultural tools are social structures and practices that we can use to create or change societies, organizations, or social interactions for the better.

• Map/Territory (1)

  "The map is not the territory" is a metaphor illustrating the differences between reality and our beliefs about reality.

• Philosophy (1)
• Rationality (1)

  A rational agent wields its intelligence in such a way as to maximize the convergence between its beliefs and reality, and acts on these beliefs in such a manner as to maximize its chances of achieving whatever goals it has. Rationality is systematized winning. Practically, the topic of rationality includes epistemology, logic, cognitive biases, and debiasing.

• Rationality Community (1)

  An online and in person community that has formed around the site LessWrong.com and has since expanded.