Ok, so I some time ago had an idea, but haven’t posted about it because it seemed to dangerous. However, I just came up with a workaround for that.
Things that speak for telling someone: Clever, interesting, fun, demonstrates TDT stuff, and sounds like the kind of thing that likely have consequences I haven’t thought of.
Things that go against telling it: It being the case does not seem very probably, it’s not very closely checked or rigorous, falls into a reference class with a bad history, and has a small but significant chance of being a dangerous roko-style memetic hazard.
My idea for a solution: anyone who wants to know about it AND have gone thought the Roko thing unharmed thus having proven reasonably resistant to these things, please PM me for discussion to see if it’s worthwhile/harmless enough to make a public post about.
(Note to people voting on this post: Unless stated otherwise in a comment, I’ll interpret upvotes as approval to handling this kind of danger this way and downvotes as saying I should have just posted it publicly right away. (Not that I would have done that even if I though people wanted it, still to risky))
Ok, so I some time ago had an idea, but haven’t posted about it because it seemed to dangerous. However, I just came up with a workaround for that.
Things that speak for telling someone: Clever, interesting, fun, demonstrates TDT stuff, and sounds like the kind of thing that likely have consequences I haven’t thought of. Things that go against telling it: It being the case does not seem very probably, it’s not very closely checked or rigorous, falls into a reference class with a bad history, and has a small but significant chance of being a dangerous roko-style memetic hazard.
My idea for a solution: anyone who wants to know about it AND have gone thought the Roko thing unharmed thus having proven reasonably resistant to these things, please PM me for discussion to see if it’s worthwhile/harmless enough to make a public post about.
(Note to people voting on this post: Unless stated otherwise in a comment, I’ll interpret upvotes as approval to handling this kind of danger this way and downvotes as saying I should have just posted it publicly right away. (Not that I would have done that even if I though people wanted it, still to risky))