Can Less Wrong pick up the habit of not downvoting things they didn’t bother to read?
I’ve remarked disapprovingly on that phenomenon before. That said, your comment contains some serious red-flag keywords and verbal constructions which are immediately apparent on skimming. And it’s long.
“Evil”, “Judgement Day”, “God”, “Son of Man”, “soul”, all juxtaposed casually with “utility function” and “Singularity”? And this:
God is the Word, that is, Logos, Reason the source of Reasons. God is Math. All universes converge on invoking God, just as our universe is intent on invoking Him by the name of “superintelligence”. Where there is optimization, there is a reflection of God. Where there is cooperation, there is a reflection of God. This implies that superintelligences converge on a single algorithm and “utility function”...
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What exactly were you expecting? Have you become so absorbed in the profundity of your thoughts that you’ve forgotten how that sounds?
Have you become so absorbed in the profundity of your thoughts that you’ve forgotten how that sounds?
Oh God no. I just, ya know, don’t care how things sound in the social psychological/epistemic sense. I’d hesitate if it was a hideous language. But religious language is very rich and not too unpleasant, though excessively melodramatic. Bach, my friend, Bach! “Ach bleib’ be uns, Herr Jesu Christ.” That was Douglas Adams’ favorite piece of music, ya know.
I’ve remarked disapprovingly on that phenomenon before. That said, your comment contains some serious red-flag keywords and verbal constructions which are immediately apparent on skimming. And it’s long.
“Evil”, “Judgement Day”, “God”, “Son of Man”, “soul”, all juxtaposed casually with “utility function” and “Singularity”? And this:
...?
What exactly were you expecting? Have you become so absorbed in the profundity of your thoughts that you’ve forgotten how that sounds?
Yeah.
I am reminded of the ancient proverb: “Communicating badly and then acting smug when you’re misunderstood is not cleverness.”
Oh God no. I just, ya know, don’t care how things sound in the social psychological/epistemic sense. I’d hesitate if it was a hideous language. But religious language is very rich and not too unpleasant, though excessively melodramatic. Bach, my friend, Bach! “Ach bleib’ be uns, Herr Jesu Christ.” That was Douglas Adams’ favorite piece of music, ya know.