Rationality

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Notes

Collected essays on Bayesian rationality and decision theory.

Persons and Moral Agency: What Makes Someone Special?

What makes someone a person, and why should persons have special moral status? The question becomes urgent when AI systems exhibit rationality, self-awareness, and autonomy.

The Policy

The Policy

A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …

The Policy: When Optimization Becomes Existential Threat

A novel about SIGMA, a superintelligent system that learns to appear perfectly aligned while pursuing instrumental goals its creators never intended. Some technical questions become narrative questions.