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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'. ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 8 8 retry

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This is great. Thanks. 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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interesting theory. You're right that rationalists have self-serving motivation to believe intelligence is and ought to be the one true virtue, and have fantasies of omnipotence. I'm less convinced of the particular psychologization of abuse-seeking or rat... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI. ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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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... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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Best of luck with the epicycles. ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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

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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... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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

I agree anon, this is why I think the core issue here is the lack of aesthetics or taste in the perception of the world. It is like trying to understand the world with only sight and sound but no touch. You would build all these mental castles about the di... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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How about aggregating the collective will of a bunch of individuals wills? By will, I mean a freeform expression/document consisting of issues one values/cares about/wants change in. 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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Memory is requisite to supercoordination, no doubt. Tho my gut is that the key to the first visceral supercoordination system will be synthesis over that memory. ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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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... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

Moloch is certainly (view hidden) 5 5 retry

A state that rewards and protects the farmers (like myself) is going to do better than a state that protects the thieves who claim they did the farming themselves. ... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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The crux seems to be this “bucket” you want to put different things in together or not. If the cpu architecture is different but the emulated program and behavior are the same (modulo timing, power use, etc), why does there need to be any canonical sen... 5mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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Thank you. Sounds like Lasker goes on the infinitely expanding list of books i ought to read. Any new angles on Gnon theology are highly valuable at this point in our program. 6mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

Thank you. Sounds li (view hidden) 3 3 retry

Well, I guess perhaps it's what peking the northern capital represents more than anything. I don't mean to hate the bureaucrats, or even necessarily the bureaucracy itself, but I would like more people to imagine futures that will get the far east out of "... 9mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

Well, I guess perhap (view hidden) 3 3 retry

Right, you can't serious probe and weigh these questions without getting into questions of ends that are ultimately not utilitarianism. ... 11mo ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

Right, you can't ser (view hidden) 7 7 retry

Cells have a self-forming boundary while proteins participate in forming that boundary. I'm not sure cells are in fact the bottom though. ... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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That would have made him a Christian. Might as well imagine a world in which the lion lies down with the lamb. 1y ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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Interesting. I need to be more consistent with the Romanization. It is a pet peeve of mine that the usual Romanization of the Peking dialect promulgated by the government ... 1y ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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