Problems with CEV: The Mahatma Armstrong argument will be part of my doctorate (either I get in Oxford or not), as you now know. So I’m researching it either way. Researching with you, besides an honor, would also be very utilitarian.
Infinite ethics: I think we should account for the infinite causal link of events coming out of every action. After that, much of the remaining questions would be coming up with the right set of mathematical tools as to make the solution really simple and elegant, without having to deal with hyperreals, infinite shadows and whatnot all at the same time.
Fermi paradox: I love it, it’s a nest of many of the things I like and/or find important. However, I don’t have many insights here. But there some things I find obvious which are de-emphasized in this area: (1) how strong Milan’s arguments against expansion are and (2) how the many overlapping explanations add up to one big explanation. From a comment I sent you a while back: “For example, is possible that while the expansion-desiring civilizations are more common, those are also the ones who couldn’t address many evolutionary shaped behaviors that lead to existential risks and hence they all go extinct. Life can be rare to the point there are only 10 intelligent life originating planets, and it can be the case only half have the desire of expand, of those only half achieve the technology, of those only half don’t go extinct…. and this result in a very small probability that the one remaining civilization will colonize.”
Anthropic decision theory: I haven’t got the time(or better, will power) to read properly your paper on it until this day. If I can convince myself there could be useful research if I read the paper, great. You can see some of my ideas on SSSA on my other comment I left you today.
Let’s talk more about any of those points whenever you have the time. Specially, we should really talk about the Mahatma Armstrong thing, it seems to be a idea we stumble upon more or less at the same time. I wonder if you said it to me in February, and I remembered it again as mine later in March.
In descending order of utility:
Problems with CEV: The Mahatma Armstrong argument will be part of my doctorate (either I get in Oxford or not), as you now know. So I’m researching it either way. Researching with you, besides an honor, would also be very utilitarian.
Infinite ethics: I think we should account for the infinite causal link of events coming out of every action. After that, much of the remaining questions would be coming up with the right set of mathematical tools as to make the solution really simple and elegant, without having to deal with hyperreals, infinite shadows and whatnot all at the same time.
Fermi paradox: I love it, it’s a nest of many of the things I like and/or find important. However, I don’t have many insights here. But there some things I find obvious which are de-emphasized in this area: (1) how strong Milan’s arguments against expansion are and (2) how the many overlapping explanations add up to one big explanation. From a comment I sent you a while back: “For example, is possible that while the expansion-desiring civilizations are more common, those are also the ones who couldn’t address many evolutionary shaped behaviors that lead to existential risks and hence they all go extinct. Life can be rare to the point there are only 10 intelligent life originating planets, and it can be the case only half have the desire of expand, of those only half achieve the technology, of those only half don’t go extinct…. and this result in a very small probability that the one remaining civilization will colonize.”
Anthropic decision theory: I haven’t got the time(or better, will power) to read properly your paper on it until this day. If I can convince myself there could be useful research if I read the paper, great. You can see some of my ideas on SSSA on my other comment I left you today.
Let’s talk more about any of those points whenever you have the time. Specially, we should really talk about the Mahatma Armstrong thing, it seems to be a idea we stumble upon more or less at the same time. I wonder if you said it to me in February, and I remembered it again as mine later in March.