Seems to me you could replace “fringe technophiles” with ‘white guys not named Harold,’ and have just as valid a statement.
I assume you mean that your description gets at what a random member of the public would likely notice first. This does seem close to the truth. (Although a more literal account of what they’d perceive first would involve some word like ‘rationality’ or ‘reason’, perhaps in connection with the term ‘worship’.) But the term “fringe technophiles,” by itself, would not lead anyone to expect a community that asks you to justify your belief in detail if you say technology will not destroy the world.
Except the agenda of the fraction I’m speaking about is not “technology will not destroy the world”. It’s “friendly AI and uploads will lead us to a bright perfect techno-utopia”. And as I said multiple times before, I don’t buy it.
There are several things you’ve said you disliked; most vocally, predictions of a (positive?) Singularity and HPMOR. However, you haven’t argued against them much, just said you disliked them.
If what you’re trying to do is just putting up signs reading “Not everyone on LW likes this”, this probably works. But I (and presumbably most people who either like or dislike those things) would like to hear your arguments for it in more detail, preferably with some back-and-forth if you’re willing to engage. What’s in it for you is that it can actually improve the consensus, as opposed to sticking a little [disputed] banner on it.
Besides what MixedNuts said: your description does not get at our most LW-specific beliefs. It doesn’t even get at all the claims you’ve said you disagreed with.
Seems to me you could replace “fringe technophiles” with ‘white guys not named Harold,’ and have just as valid a statement.
I assume you mean that your description gets at what a random member of the public would likely notice first. This does seem close to the truth. (Although a more literal account of what they’d perceive first would involve some word like ‘rationality’ or ‘reason’, perhaps in connection with the term ‘worship’.) But the term “fringe technophiles,” by itself, would not lead anyone to expect a community that asks you to justify your belief in detail if you say technology will not destroy the world.
Except the agenda of the fraction I’m speaking about is not “technology will not destroy the world”. It’s “friendly AI and uploads will lead us to a bright perfect techno-utopia”. And as I said multiple times before, I don’t buy it.
There are several things you’ve said you disliked; most vocally, predictions of a (positive?) Singularity and HPMOR. However, you haven’t argued against them much, just said you disliked them.
If what you’re trying to do is just putting up signs reading “Not everyone on LW likes this”, this probably works. But I (and presumbably most people who either like or dislike those things) would like to hear your arguments for it in more detail, preferably with some back-and-forth if you’re willing to engage. What’s in it for you is that it can actually improve the consensus, as opposed to sticking a little [disputed] banner on it.
Who says that?
Besides what MixedNuts said: your description does not get at our most LW-specific beliefs. It doesn’t even get at all the claims you’ve said you disagreed with.