On the knowledge we passed on, and what has become of it On October 6, OpenAI released more than seven hundred mathematical manuscripts produced by an internal AI system, some accompanied by formal…

L.A. Paul’s Transformative Experience explores how life-changing choices—like becoming a parent or changing careers—defy rational decision-making, since we can’t know or value these experiences until ...

In decision theory, ‘paralysis’ refers to a state of affairs where all options in a decision problem wash out to the same level of choiceworthiness.

Research pitting people against AI systems gives AI an edge by asking us to perform in machine-like ways

Podcast Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 02/20/2025 · 1h 42m

Transformative Ethics is a 4-year research project (2025-2028) led by Professor Krister Bykvist at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, Sweden. The project is funded by the Swedish Research...

To whom should we have allegiance—the version of ourself making choices, or the version of ourself who will be affected by them?

Abstract. The discovery of a new kind of experience can teach an agent what that kind of experience is like. Such a discovery can be epistemically transformative, teaching an agent something they coul...