https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi/
Nov 13, 2024 - Introduction and summary for a series of essays about how agents with different values should relate to each other, and about the ethics of seeking and sharing...
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/07/19/in-search-of-benevolence-or-what-should-you-get-clippy-for-christmas/
Dec 27, 2023 - What is altruism towards a paperclipper? Can you paint with all the colors of the wind at once?
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/16/being-nicer-than-clippy/
Jul 5, 2024 - Let's be the sort of species that aliens wouldn't fear the way we fear paperclip maximizers.
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/08/27/can-you-control-the-past/
Oct 12, 2022 - I think that you can “control” events you have no causal interaction with, including events in the past, and that this is a wild and disorienting fact,...
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/24/on-clinging/
Oct 12, 2022 - How can "non-attachment" be compatible with care? We need to distinguish between caring and clinging.
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green/
Aug 1, 2024 - Examining a philosophical vibe that I think contrasts in interesting ways with "deep atheism."
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/08/when-yang-goes-wrong/
Jun 25, 2024 - On the connection between deep atheism and seeking control.
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/gentleness-and-the-artificial-other/
Jun 25, 2024 - AIs as fellow creatures. And on getting eaten.
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https://joecarlsmith.com/
Nov 27, 2025 - Joe Carlsmith's website.
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2025/04/30/video-and-transcript-of-talk-on-automating-alignment-research/
Apr 30, 2025 - From a talk at Anthropic in April 2025.
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https://joecarlsmith.com/2021/01/18/actually-possible-thoughts-on-utopia/
Oct 12, 2022 - There are oceans we have barely dipped a toe into. There are drums and symphonies we can barely hear. There are suns whose heat we can barely feel on our skin.
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https://carlsmith.com/
Honolulu law firm, Carlsmith Ball LLP, has over 70 Hawaii attorneys with offices on Oahu, Maui and the Big Island.
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