The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World

Part I: Introductions
1. Introducing the Rationalists
2. The cosmic endowment
Part II: The Paperclip Apocalypse
3. Introducing AI
4. A history of AI
5. When will it happen?
6. Existential risk
7. The cryptographic rocket probe and why you have to get it right first time
8. Paperclips and Mickey Mouse
9. You can be intelligent, and still want to do stupid things
10. If you want to achieve your goals, not dying is a good start
11. If I stop caring about chess, that won’t help me win any chess games, now will it?
12. The brief window of being human-level
13. Getting better all the time
14. ‘FOOOOOM’
15. But can’t we just keep it in a box?
16. Dreamed of in your philosophy
17. ‘It’s like 100 per cent confident this is an ostrich’
Part III: The Ways Of Bayes
18. What is rationality?
19. Bayes’ theorem and optimization
20. Utilitarianism: shut up and multiply
Part IV: Biases
21. What is a ‘bias’?
22. The availability heuristic
23. The conjunction fallacy
24. The planning fallacy
25. Scope insensitivity
26. Motivated skepticism, motivated stopping and motivated continuation
27. A few others, and the most important one
Part V: Raising The Sanity Waterline
28. Thinking probabilistically
29. 29: Making beliefs pay rent
30. Noticing confusion
31. The Importance Of Saying ‘Oops’
Part VI: Decline And Diaspora
32. The semi-death of Less Wrong
33. The IRL community
Part VII: Dark Sides
34. Are they a cult?
35. You can’t psychoanalyses your way to the truth
36. Feminism
37. The Neoreactionaries
Part VIII: Doing Good Better
38. The Effective Altruists
39. EA and AI
Part Nine: The Base Rate Of The Apocalypse
40. What are they doing to stop the AI apocalypse?
41. The internal double crux
42. Life, the universe and everything