Ben Pace

Nov 20, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Ben Pace

I run a weekly sequences-reading meetup with some friends, and I want to add a film-component, where we watch films that have some tie-in to what we've read. I got to talking with friends about what good rationality films there are. We had some ideas but I wanted to turn it to LessWrong to find out. So please, submit your rationalist films! Then we can watch and discuss them :-)Here are the rules for the thread. Each answer should have 1 film.

Sep 28, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Raymond Arnold |Ben Pace |Thomas Kwa |Logan Riggs

One year ago, many people on LessWrong received a DM asking them to choose the most important virtue of Petrov Day, with four listed options that we'd seen people argue for in previous years.

Sep 28, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Rob Bensinger |Ben Pace |Benito's Guide

A sequence is a series of multiple posts on Less Wrong on the same topic, to coherently and fully explore a particular thesis. See the Library page for a list of LessWrong sequences in their modern form. The original sequences were written by Eliezer Yudkowsky with the goal of creating a book on rationality. MIRI has since collated and editedthe sequences intoRationality: From AI to Zombies. If you are new to Less Wrong, this book is the best place to start.

Sep 26, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Ben Pace

This is a last-minute event happening today (Thursday). Today is September 26th, Petrov Day, celebrated to honor the deed of Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov on September 26th, 1983. Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, take a minute to not destroy the world. —Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2007Every year for the past 5-6 years, I and some friends meet to honor Petrov Day.

Sep 26, 2024 | lesswrong.com | Ben Pace

Today we honor the actions of Stanislav Petrov (1939 – 2017) once again. Half an hour past midnight on September 26, 1983, he saw the first apparent launch on his computer monitor in a glass-walled room on the top floor of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) command and control post. The warning system was by now showing five missile launches in the U.S., headed toward the Soviet Union. "The main computer wouldn't ask me [what to do] - it was made so that it wouldn't even ask.