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Yes, that sounds right. A singleton maximizing extropy is stable. Many actors maximizing entropy is not: you end up in a catabolic collapse as the actor's environment is eaten for the (temporary) sake of the actor. Arguably this describes our current descr... 11h ago (collapse hidden) retry

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On German and Mid-Atlantic English:... 3d ago (collapse hidden) retry

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I intend on having a website up in the next two weeks. Still working on fleshing out the plan and the vision but things are falling into place. 4d ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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Of course “naturalist” is the correct term for a sensible scientific civilization that integrates the lessons of evolution and industry and astrophysics into its being without superstitious attachments.... 5d ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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People compete on the world of ideas, those of emotions still exist like animals in a zoo.... 1w ago (collapse hidden) retry

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Agreed, with important works you’re not just reading the content but also the spirit of the author. That which is left behind after the words are through. Been feeling a greater pull towards original texts after LLMs, separating what needs to be consumed... 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Agreed, with importa (view hidden) retry 3 3

Look no comment on the current regime and its lack of tact. I support their priorities but there's obviously a lot of dumb stuff going on. In any case I consider it orthogonal to what we should be doing in theory and i wish not to be constrained by their r... 4w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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We see it already with today's tech companies, to an extent: the US government shuts down nuclear power plants while GOOGL and MSFT plan on building their own nuclear power plants, facilitating their respective AGI plans.... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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Great question OP. This one has puzzled me for many years as I have been convinced both of the near-medium possibility and revolutionary impact of AGI, and of the demographic suicide default trajectory. Here's how i factor it:... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

Great question OP. T (view hidden) retry 3 3

intelligent super-ants make a good thought experiment. Let's add the standard set of capabilities: language, learned culture, tool use, fire, reflection, etc. Note these are just capabilities, not values or arbitrary architectural narrowings, but they are ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 7 7

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Tieing it back to the topic in OP, energy rate density is closely related to a lot of the thermodynamics that are used and abused by accelerationists. In many ways that Chaisson article I shared is accelerationist through and through. And on a personal lev... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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This story is clearly in the fast takeoff regime. The essential difference between fast and slow takeoff is, 'is the takeoff happening faster than the rate of cultural development'.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

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The point of the story isn't that the devil is good or even that the devil was right. It’s that this creation (physical reality) is the good one, the pain in it is part of a greater plan and beauty, and the paradise imagined by bronze age semites is fake... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI.... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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This matches my intuition - Elizerian alignment was always an incoherent goal, no agents or objects have perfectly coherent boundaries, making something intelligent provably aim at a single well defined end state is probably at best a recipe for madness in... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1

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We need a school of true anthropology. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2

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Some people won't believe in the inherent goodness of existence until it's been autistically proven to them with English philosophizing a hundred times over. That's fine. For the rest of us, we don't need to be persuaded of the inherent goodness of existen... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2

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I looked it up: inner alignment is the difficult problem of making sure a program is optimizing for what you optimized it for. That's related, maybe a part but not the whole of strong rationality. Strong rationality is about an agent evaluating and operati... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

I looked it up: inne (view hidden) retry 3 3

Moloch is certainly used as a pretext for hubris against God (as is typical of all self-righteous Ivan Karamazov types that only end up making matters worse for the very people they claim to stand in defense of), but the concept is more limited. Indeed, it... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

Moloch is certainly (view hidden) retry 5 5

I have found the instincts to be trainable by philosophy. No one can escape the value grounding problem (that values must be taken on faith), but you can reach reflective equilibrium where your values are self-consistent with everything you know and with t... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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