We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. If Star Trek’s Borg Collective came to assimilate everyone on Earth, Eliezer Yudkowsky would engage them in logical debate until they agreed they should come back later after our technology has increased exponentially for some number of years, a more valuable thing for them to assimilate. Also, he would underestimate how fast our technology increases just enough that when the Borg came back, we would be the stronger force.
Why is this posted to LessWrong?
What does it have to do with being less wrong or sharpening our rationality?
Rational minds need comedy too, or they go insane. Much of this is vaguely related to rational subjects so it does not fit well in other websites.
Not necessarily. It’s just that we are very far from being perfectly rational.
You’re right. I wrote “rational minds” in general when I was thinking about the most rational few of people today. I did not mean any perfectly rational mind exists.
Most or all Human brains tend to work better if they experience certain kinds of things that may include wasteful parts, like comedy, socializing, and dreaming. Its not rational to waste more than you have to. Today we do not have enough knowledge and control over our minds to optimize away all our wasteful/suboptimal thoughts.
I have no reason to think, in the “design space” of all possible minds, there exists 0, or there exists more than 0, perfectly rational minds that tend to think more efficiently after experiencing comedy.
I do have a reason to slightly bias it toward “there exists more than 0” because Humans and monkeys have a sense of humor that helps them think better if used at least once per day, but when thinking about exponential size intelligence, that slight bias becomes an epsilon. Epsilon can be important if you’re completely undecided, but usually its best to look for ideas somewhere else before considering an epsilon size chance. What people normally call “smarter than Human intelligence” is also an epsilon size intelligence in this context, so the 2 things are not epsilon when compared to eachother.
The main thing I’ve figured out here is to be more open-minded about if comedy (and similar things) can increase the efficiency of a rational mind or not. I let an assumption get into my writing.
We are Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. If Star Trek’s Borg Collective came to assimilate everyone on Earth, Eliezer Yudkowsky would engage them in logical debate until they agreed they should come back later after our technology has increased exponentially for some number of years, a more valuable thing for them to assimilate. Also, he would underestimate how fast our technology increases just enough that when the Borg came back, we would be the stronger force.
Rational minds need comedy too, or they go insane. Much of this is vaguely related to rational subjects so it does not fit well in other websites.
Not necessarily. It’s just that we are very far from being perfectly rational.
You’re right. I wrote “rational minds” in general when I was thinking about the most rational few of people today. I did not mean any perfectly rational mind exists.
Most or all Human brains tend to work better if they experience certain kinds of things that may include wasteful parts, like comedy, socializing, and dreaming. Its not rational to waste more than you have to. Today we do not have enough knowledge and control over our minds to optimize away all our wasteful/suboptimal thoughts.
I have no reason to think, in the “design space” of all possible minds, there exists 0, or there exists more than 0, perfectly rational minds that tend to think more efficiently after experiencing comedy.
I do have a reason to slightly bias it toward “there exists more than 0” because Humans and monkeys have a sense of humor that helps them think better if used at least once per day, but when thinking about exponential size intelligence, that slight bias becomes an epsilon. Epsilon can be important if you’re completely undecided, but usually its best to look for ideas somewhere else before considering an epsilon size chance. What people normally call “smarter than Human intelligence” is also an epsilon size intelligence in this context, so the 2 things are not epsilon when compared to eachother.
The main thing I’ve figured out here is to be more open-minded about if comedy (and similar things) can increase the efficiency of a rational mind or not. I let an assumption get into my writing.