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Would you press the button? The hard problem of alignment

There is a TL;DR at the end. The heaven button: You wake up one day and find a button in front of you, with a proof next to it. The proof says that pressing the button will kill everyone on the planet and send them all to heaven. Would you press it? It seems too good to be true. You think it must be a dream. It can't possibly be true. You go through the proof, and it seems correct. But what if you were under the influence of some drug? But the stakes are very high, so you use software you trust to formalize it in Lean, and you run it on a machine you trust. Lean says the proof is correct so no

LessWrong · EN

How the press created the myths of Jack the Ripper

Five women were killed in London's East End in 1888

BBC Culture · EN

Show your support for Blender projects

New update to Blender Development Fund now lets supporters to highlight favorite projects on the Roadmap page, boosting their visibility and demand.

Blender News · EN