Not sufficiently informed. My general idea which might be flawed is that it’s significant risk, as in an AI can incrementally improve itself rather quickly, but that’s all intuition.
2) Everybody should be vegan.
I’d like to say something here. People might feel a little bit of hostility toward pro-vegan propaganda which is completely justified. I’d explain further, but it’ll be great if people separate the agenda and the people.
More often than not I see manipulative nonsense which is basically propaganda. Examples include altruism abuse (‘Eating animals is bad and terrible!’), scientific abuse (‘Meat is bad for your health!’), and truth misrepresentation (‘This roidhead lives on a pure diet of vegetables!’).
I believe that probably gives rise to plenty of contempt toward vegans. They didn’t do anything wrong, but personally it gives me the “Go to the libraby and look for Cialdini” vibe; I’d have to use some exotic mind trick to actually convince them that the evidence is wrong or just plainly bad. The difference between talking with a wall that talks back to these type of arguments are, from a consequental point of view, not that much different.
TLDR too much propaganda, absolutes are bad, and this is one of the dieting culture ‘fields of belief’ - isomorphic to relationships and PUA.
3) It’s good to make being an aspiring rationalist part of your identity.
Not going to answer this because it’s vague. What does aspiring rationalist mean? I don’t know enough math? Haven’t read the sequences? I’m not psuedo-omniscient? The mental models in my head don’t have clear shapes? Are there any levels and does the Dojo hand out belts?
There’s no reason to push it too strongly, but there’s no reason not to pursue it either, so I can’t really come up with a good enough answer. Maybe if ‘identity’ could be unpacked I could give one.
4) Being conscious of privacy is important
Is there a reason not to? Go ahead and tell me where you live. ‘No’? Then privacy is important.
Not sufficiently informed. My general idea which might be flawed is that it’s significant risk, as in an AI can incrementally improve itself rather quickly, but that’s all intuition.
2) Everybody should be vegan.
I’d like to say something here. People might feel a little bit of hostility toward pro-vegan propaganda which is completely justified. I’d explain further, but it’ll be great if people separate the agenda and the people.
More often than not I see manipulative nonsense which is basically propaganda. Examples include altruism abuse (‘Eating animals is bad and terrible!’), scientific abuse (‘Meat is bad for your health!’), and truth misrepresentation (‘This roidhead lives on a pure diet of vegetables!’).
I believe that probably gives rise to plenty of contempt toward vegans. They didn’t do anything wrong, but personally it gives me the “Go to the libraby and look for Cialdini” vibe; I’d have to use some exotic mind trick to actually convince them that the evidence is wrong or just plainly bad. The difference between talking with a wall that talks back to these type of arguments are, from a consequental point of view, not that much different.
TLDR too much propaganda, absolutes are bad, and this is one of the dieting culture ‘fields of belief’ - isomorphic to relationships and PUA.
3) It’s good to make being an aspiring rationalist part of your identity.
Not going to answer this because it’s vague. What does aspiring rationalist mean? I don’t know enough math? Haven’t read the sequences? I’m not psuedo-omniscient? The mental models in my head don’t have clear shapes? Are there any levels and does the Dojo hand out belts?
There’s no reason to push it too strongly, but there’s no reason not to pursue it either, so I can’t really come up with a good enough answer. Maybe if ‘identity’ could be unpacked I could give one.
4) Being conscious of privacy is important
Is there a reason not to? Go ahead and tell me where you live. ‘No’? Then privacy is important.
Here’s a nice essay on it though: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565