This post once had 11 Karma and then went down to 4, so clearly this is not a popular take among rationalists.
I feel as if too many rationalists struggle to see past the “but what about the slippery slope?” argument and fail to see the evil that’s right in front of them.
I would love to see this happen again with a moderator and some more structure.
I wonder if this isn’t a consequence of a kind of philosophical blind spot in EYs rationalist perspective. Sort of that to EY Twitter represents an achievement to pedestalize rather than a albatross that we’ve bought in to and accept because of network lock-in effects.
I used to tell people in college that I “had two pack a year habit.” I would smoke rarely to strike up conversations because it was an easy ice breaker when I wanted a conversation. Twitter is like that, but instead trading seven minutes of your life you’re trading chunks of your humanity.
I mean… I’m jealous of Trump for losing access to his drug of choice. I think it could be a really positive things for him and for all of us. :)
This post once had 11 Karma and then went down to 4, so clearly this is not a popular take among rationalists.
I feel as if too many rationalists struggle to see past the “but what about the slippery slope?” argument and fail to see the evil that’s right in front of them.
Your post is a good one and it sucks people are coming down on it that way.
It made me wonder if Eliezer and Jaron Lanier had ever had a conversation before. They did not too long ago and I missed it. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6MNzvgmHtTASpaSS/bhtv-jaron-lanier-and-yudkowsky—video is missing from the LW post but is here https://www.youtube.com/watch/Ff15lbI1V9M
I would love to see this happen again with a moderator and some more structure.
I wonder if this isn’t a consequence of a kind of philosophical blind spot in EYs rationalist perspective. Sort of that to EY Twitter represents an achievement to pedestalize rather than a albatross that we’ve bought in to and accept because of network lock-in effects.
I used to tell people in college that I “had two pack a year habit.” I would smoke rarely to strike up conversations because it was an easy ice breaker when I wanted a conversation. Twitter is like that, but instead trading seven minutes of your life you’re trading chunks of your humanity.
I mean… I’m jealous of Trump for losing access to his drug of choice. I think it could be a really positive things for him and for all of us. :)