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Hello everyone. My name is Kseniia Lisovskaia, I think, better to call me Xenia or Xenya. My native language is Russian, so, English is my second language, and I can do mistakes, sorry for that. Because Russian language has different alphabet, there are different ways how to transliterate my name from Cyrillic to Latin. I think, Xenia is the easy way, because it's common transliteration for the same Greece name.
I'm immigrant in Canada. I left Russia because of political reasons, and because don't like chaos. Unfortunately, chaos now is going to invade in Canada too. I know what Eliezer said about Politics, that it's a killer of mind. It's reason why I don't elaborate.
I participated in Russian speaking lesswrong community in the past. And I have ideas, which maybe can be valuable contribution.
Also, I participate in Russian-speaking internet forum about astronomy(it affected by state censorship, but not much), and it has a big subforum about existential risks, Universe, science itself, AI, etc. I think, it can be valuable to bring most interesting ideas here.
I'm singularist, maybe I about to adopt utilitarianism and/or rational altruism, but I'm not fully sure. I'm defiantly humanist, but in the edge of technological singularity, the classical humanism looks like a bit outdated.
From my perspective, utilitarianism has alignment problems, like AI: why don't take drugs and not make everyone happy? Utilitarianists usually answer, that they mean other type of happiness. But I don't think this answer is good enough.
Also, I'm interested in astronomy, physics, biology, political science, history, computers/programming/AI, volunteering activities(basically I get my endorphins when I help someone), in literature(mostly reading, but I'm trying to write fiction myself). And I have a dream: to be adopted as favourite pet by very clever and kind ASI, and live forever.
I feel very disconnected from other rational people, and feel that chaos is everywhere. Thank you guys, that you keep this island of rationality in the sea of chaos alive. It's very important for me to know, that somewhere madness not finally win yet. My husband is rationalist and transhumanist (he is like an idea to defeat death), but his political views recently changed, and he became an agent of chaos himself.
Honestly, I think, we can't win. I expect a dark singularity or even an extinction event. I think, our the Great Filter ahead, and we will crash about it soon.