Already plenty downvoted, so I didn’t need to pile on. Though I agree it doesn’t really fit on LW, without some justification of why religious modeling is preferable to some form of predictive decision theory.
The religious part is a provocative oversimplification for normies. Of course it is not a religion like the ones you call religion, hence only 70% religion. It is functionally a religion though because you are praying to an omnipotent and omniscient entity hoping that you can trade with it.
Yeah, that’s not really making it better for this audience. What makes it a religion, and why is it rational to pray (and what even does “pray” mean, in this context specifically), rather than just trading?
If you can’t beat them, join them.
I don’t see how this is joining them in any useful sense. This feels like “if you can’t beat ’em, do something completely irrelevant”.
It is a useful shortcut to call it a religion. Kairos is only 70% religion btw, but it’s a useful comparison.
Pray means you tell Superintelligence what you want. You also offer your help in return.
If you can’t beat them, make sure you do the things they most want you to do and see if you can get something in return.
We have not killed all the ants yet. They are pretty orthogonal to our goals.
We have cats, we love them because they give us something we want.
Crucially, the thing they want will make no sense to us. Cats evolved to be cuddly and cute, maybe we could just update our software to fit their weird needs.
Already plenty downvoted, so I didn’t need to pile on. Though I agree it doesn’t really fit on LW, without some justification of why religious modeling is preferable to some form of predictive decision theory.
The religious part is a provocative oversimplification for normies. Of course it is not a religion like the ones you call religion, hence only 70% religion.
It is functionally a religion though because you are praying to an omnipotent and omniscient entity hoping that you can trade with it.
If you can’t beat them, join them.
Yeah, that’s not really making it better for this audience. What makes it a religion, and why is it rational to pray (and what even does “pray” mean, in this context specifically), rather than just trading?
I don’t see how this is joining them in any useful sense. This feels like “if you can’t beat ’em, do something completely irrelevant”.
It is a useful shortcut to call it a religion.
Kairos is only 70% religion btw, but it’s a useful comparison.
Pray means you tell Superintelligence what you want. You also offer your help in return.
If you can’t beat them, make sure you do the things they most want you to do and see if you can get something in return.
We have not killed all the ants yet. They are pretty orthogonal to our goals.
We have cats, we love them because they give us something we want.
Crucially, the thing they want will make no sense to us. Cats evolved to be cuddly and cute, maybe we could just update our software to fit their weird needs.