jd_pressman: Yudkowsky's fun theory sequence still the best work on AI-era flourishing
jd_pressman · x · 2026-11-14
In a debate on where the AI safety community dropped the ball, jdpressman argues the blame lies more with non-Yudkowsky people. He holds that Yudkowsky's fun theory sequence is a better investigation of the relevant questions than almost all other literature on the subject, and that Yudkowsky explicitly encouraged readers to make it rigorous—prioritizing corrigibility instead was a fine tradeoff.
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