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by convexfunction 11y ago
"Bro" is an interesting word. At this point it seems to be broad enough to just mean "outgroup"; apply to any context as needed.
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by convexfunction 11y ago
The rationalists I know in real life tend to be acutely aware that they are still biased in many ways, and would probably laugh at the sentence fragment "successfully suppressed or outgrew [an] emotion". Maybe we know completely d
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by convexfunction 11y ago
>There is, of course, no mention of financial aid packages by the coalition. Top schools tend to give full rides to sufficiently poor students. (I probably would've bothered to apply to them if I'd known that before I started a
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by convexfunction 11y ago
Whether or not a thing falls under the domain of "morality" is a function of many arguments--it depends on the thing itself, as well as who, where, and when you are. Do you really think that historically, people who hated their ou
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by convexfunction 11y ago
Layfolk coming up with just-so stories to justify what they want to be true are very, very different from actual scientists doing actual research on actual falsifiable hypotheses in actual evolutionary psychology. Don't let the former
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by convexfunction 11y ago
I don't interpret the comparison there as "these are all equally bad" (I bet the author would endorse Napoleon's rise to power, in fact), but more as "this is what sudden changes in preference falsification equilibr
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by convexfunction 11y ago
> The researchers did not, however, compare accident rates with similar operations in which robots were not used. Aaaaaaaaa.
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Cooperative Ignorance(ribbonfarm.com)
4 points by convexfunction 11y ago|0 comments
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by convexfunction 11y ago
I think they find it unlikely that someone will succeed at making a worryingly strong AI that also perfectly obeys its creator -- that is solving the friendly AI problem, just toward one person or organization. Figuring out how to prevent
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by convexfunction 11y ago
Eh, sorry. I do basically agree with you.
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by convexfunction 11y ago
"Women in programming should..." Hm. :\
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by convexfunction 11y ago
The name is silly, yes, but I do wonder if this kind of thing even accomplishes its stated goals. I've known a few programmers-who-are-women who find the laser-focus on Women Can Program Too to be annoying ("yes, I'm a woman,
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by convexfunction 11y ago
I really wish more people grokked Stanovich's algorithmic vs. reflective intelligence thing. It is so much better at explaining reality than trying to say "well they're smart but they have ~character flaws~ so they don't
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by convexfunction 11y ago
So you think that being scared is evidence of fascism, misogyny, racism, or similar? No legitimate reasons to think what's happening is terrifying? How terrifying.
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by convexfunction 11y ago
"Right side of history", "moral arc of the universe", etc. seems to suggest that the people becoming uncomfortable think it's a slippery slope too.
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by convexfunction 11y ago
This is not a "standard evopsych position". Evolutionary psychology seems to get conflated with a lot of unsavory bullshit just because the latter uses appeals to the former. Most people I know who do evolutionary psychology are e
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by convexfunction 11y ago
There are probably lots of people who need to hear this, and given the people who'll be attending and made it clear how much of a fuss they would make, it was obviously the right call to disinvite him. I think it's still worth bri
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by convexfunction 11y ago
It's funny because he definitely saw this coming. http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/09/technol...
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by convexfunction 11y ago
College admissions discussion is as good a time as any to emphasize the algorithmic vs. reflective intelligence distinction, via Stanovich. SATs, grades in high school, and the rest of the college admissions stuff filters very heavily on al
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by convexfunction 11y ago
I think the Mars colonization is about other x-risks, e.g. asteroids, nuclear war, pathogens...
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AI Researchers on AI Risk(slatestarcodex.com)
23 points by convexfunction 11y ago|6 comments
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by convexfunction 11y ago
https://intelligence.org/2015/01/08/brooks-searle-agi-voliti... >According to a 2013 survey of the most cited authors in artificial intelligence, experts expect AI to be able to “carry out most human profe
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by convexfunction 11y ago
I'm trying to figure out an interpretation of this that actually makes sense. He's suggesting people don't even consider their prior experiences when choosing restaurants now? The subjective experience of "free will&quot
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by convexfunction 11y ago
Would you really expect that a large majority of people who are interested in immortality, are interested in it because they don't like being alive ? Also, psychoanalysis-at-a-distance of broad groups of people is generally awful, eve
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by convexfunction 11y ago
Journalist suggests mass death of a particular demographic appears to be the politically easiest path, and conveniently also a teleological imperative.
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by convexfunction 11y ago
It makes sense that we'd expect to observe civilizations that are good at growing and have in fact already grown, right? Same reason we observe animals with a strong sense of self-preservation. These hypothetical expanding civilization
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by convexfunction 12y ago
I meant "might be real" according to generic-you in that statement. Someone being wrong doesn't make information hazards in general disappear.
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by convexfunction 12y ago
You should familiarize yourself with that feeling so you can recognize it later; it's the feeling of falling into an inferential gap. (The thing might be worthless, true, like Scientology. I usually find that resolving confusion is wor
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by convexfunction 12y ago
Eliezer agrees with you! Roko's Basilisk in particular is wrong. As a matter of policy though, you do not just publicly publish information hazards that might be real ; that was why it was a big deal.
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by convexfunction 12y ago
I didn't learn Ivies commonly gave free rides until a while into my undergraduate at my state public university. I think what you're seeing is more an issue of questioning the specific assumptions that prevent the question from sp

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