Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks
Recent decades have seen some fascinating discoveries about experimentally reproducible human errors - some that apply specifically to considering giant risks, and others that apply to any attempt to imagine the future. One-of-a-kind risks present special challenges to human rationality; these will be discussed with as much specific experimental grounding as possible.
Biographies: Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky is an Artificial Intelligence theorist who also writes on the topic of human rationality. He cofounded the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit devoted to research and advocacy on the topics of Artificial General Intelligence, self-improving AI, and superintelligence. Yudkowsky was one of the founding directors of the World Transhumanist Association. He previously blogged on human rationality at the econblog Overcoming Bias and now writes at the community blog Less Wrong, which have together received over 7 million pageviews. Yudkowsky has appeared on the BBC, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel; and has presented at popular, academic, and government conferences and workshops.
