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  2. gened-1034-19.omeka.fas.harvard.edu

    Meditations on Moloch. Subject: Multipolar traps and modern societal ills. Description: This text is a part sociological work, part neoreligious manifesto about prisoner's dilemmae, multipolar traps (a more general version of such dilemmae), and modern societal ills that stem from endless competition.
  3. lesswrong.com

    Meditations On Moloch. by Scott Alexander. 30th Jul 2014. 57 min read. 10. 195 [Content note: Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions!] I. Allan Ginsberg's famous poem, Moloch: ... (Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen!)
  4. This saves me the effort of doing a deeper dive on Meditations on Moloch, since it keeps coming up as Scott Alexander's one good piece of writing, and is frankly better than I could've done.I'm not immersed enough in "Rationalism" as a philosophy to pick it apart or follow its implications the way you have.
  5. meditations.metavert.io

    Mar 18, 2024I asked Aura what she thought of the widely-circulated Meditations on Moloch essay, which captures many of the fears of economic optimization, multipolar traps and AI risks. We worked together, iterating a bit—the main thing I had to work with her on is that Opus does seem to have an inherent bias towards solutions that involve top-down government regulation and widespread consensus.

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