This post is one more addition to the worrying trend in LW that asks for black and white solutions as it there were no middle ground. Would you say that having no army is better than having an army at all? I would feel more comfortable knowing that we have Godzilla in our side than having nothing
This. A lot of the blame goes to MIRI viewing AI Alignment discretely, rather than continuously, as well as a view that only heroic or pivotal acts save the world. This tends to be all or nothing, and generates all-or-nothing views.
David Chapman talks about ways of thinking and is influenced by Buddhism and LW-style rationality. I’ve read his website-book “Meaningness” and I’m starting to read his new website-book “In the Cells of the Eggplant”. His twitter has a link to this page which seems like the right place to start reading his work. He would describe EY’s way of thinking as “rationalist eternalism” and “fixated”.
(He should not be confused with the guy who shot John Lennon.)
This post is one more addition to the worrying trend in LW that asks for black and white solutions as it there were no middle ground. Would you say that having no army is better than having an army at all? I would feel more comfortable knowing that we have Godzilla in our side than having nothing
This. A lot of the blame goes to MIRI viewing AI Alignment discretely, rather than continuously, as well as a view that only heroic or pivotal acts save the world. This tends to be all or nothing, and generates all-or-nothing views.
I really wish David Chapman and his ideas were a more active part of this discussion.
Can you give some context?
David Chapman talks about ways of thinking and is influenced by Buddhism and LW-style rationality. I’ve read his website-book “Meaningness” and I’m starting to read his new website-book “In the Cells of the Eggplant”. His twitter has a link to this page which seems like the right place to start reading his work. He would describe EY’s way of thinking as “rationalist eternalism” and “fixated”.
(He should not be confused with the guy who shot John Lennon.)
The perfect has become the enemy of the good.