I… upvoted it because it says true and useful things about how to make the world not end and proposes an actionable strategy for how to increase our odds of survival while relatively thoroughly addressing a good number of possible objections. The goal of LessWrong is not to make people happier, and the post outlines a pretty clear hypothesis about how it might help others (1. by making people stop working on plans that condition on lots of success in a way that gets ungrounded from reality, 2. by making people not do really dumb unethical things out of desperation).
Additionally, the OP seems to me good for communication: Eliezer had a lot of bottled up thoughts, and here put them out in the world, where his thoughts can bump into other people who can in turn bump back into him.
AFAICT, conversation (free, open, “non-consequentialist” conversation, following interests and what seems worth sharing rather than solely backchaining from goals) is one of the places where consciousness and sanity sometimes enter. It’s right there next to “free individual thought” in my list of beautiful things that are worth engaging in and safeguarding.
I… upvoted it because it says true and useful things about how to make the world not end and proposes an actionable strategy for how to increase our odds of survival while relatively thoroughly addressing a good number of possible objections. The goal of LessWrong is not to make people happier, and the post outlines a pretty clear hypothesis about how it might help others (1. by making people stop working on plans that condition on lots of success in a way that gets ungrounded from reality, 2. by making people not do really dumb unethical things out of desperation).
Ditto.
Additionally, the OP seems to me good for communication: Eliezer had a lot of bottled up thoughts, and here put them out in the world, where his thoughts can bump into other people who can in turn bump back into him.
AFAICT, conversation (free, open, “non-consequentialist” conversation, following interests and what seems worth sharing rather than solely backchaining from goals) is one of the places where consciousness and sanity sometimes enter. It’s right there next to “free individual thought” in my list of beautiful things that are worth engaging in and safeguarding.