Poignard Azur

Sep 28, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Seth Herd |Poignard Azur |Ramblin Dash |Nathan Helm-Burger

A cohabitive game is a partially cooperative, partially competitive multiplayer game that provides an anarchic dojo for development in applied cooperative bargaining, or negotiation. Applied cooperative bargaining isn't currently taught, despite being an infrastructural literacy for peace, trade, democracy or any other form of pluralism. We suffer for that.

May 5, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Nathan Helm-Burger |Poignard Azur

"The view, expressed by almost all competent atomic scientists, that there was no "secret" about how to build an atomic bomb was thus not only rejected by influential people in the U.S. political establishment, but was regarded as a treasonous plot." Robert Oppenheimer A Life at the Center, Ray Monk. [This essay addresses the probability and existential risk of AI through the lens of national security, which the author believes is the most impactful way to address the issue.

Apr 19, 2023 | lesswrong.com | Poignard Azur

Note: this is a post I wrote in 2018, so some of the numbers may be out of date. I've also changed my mind on lots of things since 2018, and there are many parts that I would write differently. Until now, the post was only accessible from the Wayback Machine; I'm sharing it here with some light edits because I think some LWers might find it interesting. Edited on 4/20 to add two pictures.