Surfing Uncertainty

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Surfing Uncertainty is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 13, 2021 and June 01, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as ”[ semi-necessary prerequisites: Surfing Uncertainty ]”; “Andy Clark (professor of cognitive philosophy, wrote Surfing Uncertainty)“. It most often appears alongside 2006 IAU vote, 5-HT2A receptors, 9/11.

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  • Category: Books
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: February 13, 2021
  • Last seen: June 01, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

February 13, 2021 · Original source
[semi-necessary prerequisites: Surfing Uncertainty, Friston On Computational Mood]
June 01, 2023 · Original source
Can’t even list all the new people who have come out as AI x-risk believers, but you can just read the CAIS statement. The top signatures are Geoff Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei; aside from the usual suspects, they also have Bruce Schneier (computer security expert) , Dawn Song (computer scientist and security expert), Andy Clark (professor of cognitive philosophy, wrote Surfing Uncertainty), Eliezer Yudkowsky (he didn't sign the last one because he disagreed with specifics, but he's here), and a former US Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense.