Rationality

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

Notes

Collected essays on Bayesian rationality and decision theory.

Persons and Moral Agency: What Makes Someone Special?

Throughout history, humans have believed they belong to a special categorical class called “persons.” But what makes someone a person? And why should persons have special moral status?

On Moral Responsibility questions these traditional …

The Policy

The Policy

A speculative fiction novel exploring AI alignment, existential risk, and the fundamental tension between optimization and ethics. When a research team develops SIGMA, an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare, they must confront an …

The Policy: When Optimization Becomes Existential Threat

Some technical questions become narrative questions. The Policy is one of those explorations.

The Setup

Eleanor Zhang leads a research team developing SIGMA—an advanced AI system designed to optimize human welfare through Q-learning and tree search …