...when I later read someone referring to it being censored, and some curiosity regarding it, and I updated on the fact that it was being taken that seriously by others here.
If you join a community concerned with decision theory, are you surprised by the fact that they take problems in decision theory seriously?
There is no expected payoff in harming me just because decision theory implies it being rational. Because I do not follow such procedures. If something wants to waste its resources on it, I win. Because I weaken it. It has to waste resources on me it could use in the dark ages of the universe to support a protégé. And it never received any payoff for this, because I do not play along in any branch that I exist. You see, any decision theory is useless if you deal with agents that don’t care about such. Utility is completely subjective too, as Hume said, “`Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger”. The whole problem in question is just due to the fact that people think that if decision theory implies a strategy to be favorable then you have to follow through on it. Well, no. You can always say, fuck you! The might of God and terrorists is in the mind of their victims.
If you join a community concerned with decision theory, are you surprised by the fact that they take problems in decision theory seriously?
Are they? Are they really? What actual, concrete actions have been taken, or are planned, regarding the basilisk? If people actually make material sacrifices based on having seen the Basilisk then I’m willing to take it seriously, if only for its effects on the human mind.
Then again in the most worrying (or third most worrying, I guess) case, they would likely hide said activities to prevent anything damaging their plans. They could also hide it out of altruism to keep from disturbing halfway smart basilisk seers like us, I guess.
If you join a community concerned with decision theory, are you surprised by the fact that they take problems in decision theory seriously?
There is no expected payoff in harming me just because decision theory implies it being rational. Because I do not follow such procedures. If something wants to waste its resources on it, I win. Because I weaken it. It has to waste resources on me it could use in the dark ages of the universe to support a protégé. And it never received any payoff for this, because I do not play along in any branch that I exist. You see, any decision theory is useless if you deal with agents that don’t care about such. Utility is completely subjective too, as Hume said, “`Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger”. The whole problem in question is just due to the fact that people think that if decision theory implies a strategy to be favorable then you have to follow through on it. Well, no. You can always say, fuck you! The might of God and terrorists is in the mind of their victims.
Are they? Are they really? What actual, concrete actions have been taken, or are planned, regarding the basilisk? If people actually make material sacrifices based on having seen the Basilisk then I’m willing to take it seriously, if only for its effects on the human mind. Then again in the most worrying (or third most worrying, I guess) case, they would likely hide said activities to prevent anything damaging their plans. They could also hide it out of altruism to keep from disturbing halfway smart basilisk seers like us, I guess.
I’m pretty sure no one firmly believes in the basilisk simply because everyone who was convinced by it would be spreading it as much as they could.