I’m annoyed that this was downvoted. It’s a reasonable take, not standard, and important. I’m not upvoting, because it’s not new to me, but someone who generated this post is someone who I would want to feel excited about posting more on LW, so I don’t like that they’re punished.
Thank you for supporting my expression of a nonstandard view. I could have said something that everyone would agree with, such as “out of control AGI is bad,” but with slightly more flowery & nuanced language. If I did that, I would probably have gotten multiple upvotes. However, posting for the sake of popularity does not get us any closer to truth. The frontier of progress only begins to move with proposed views that initially seem to be “far out there.” That is, after all, part of how we define “frontier.” Furthermore, thinking of reality with absolutely no assumptions at all, rather than starting with “obvious assumptions,” can prevent us from artificially restricting our view of reality, and missing something. So anyway, thanks again for supporting my decision to express a nonstandard view, even if you don’t necessarily agree with it. It’s amazing how few people are capable of doing that. I really appreciate the support.
I’m annoyed that this was downvoted. It’s a reasonable take, not standard, and important. I’m not upvoting, because it’s not new to me, but someone who generated this post is someone who I would want to feel excited about posting more on LW, so I don’t like that they’re punished.
Thank you for supporting my expression of a nonstandard view. I could have said something that everyone would agree with, such as “out of control AGI is bad,” but with slightly more flowery & nuanced language. If I did that, I would probably have gotten multiple upvotes. However, posting for the sake of popularity does not get us any closer to truth. The frontier of progress only begins to move with proposed views that initially seem to be “far out there.” That is, after all, part of how we define “frontier.” Furthermore, thinking of reality with absolutely no assumptions at all, rather than starting with “obvious assumptions,” can prevent us from artificially restricting our view of reality, and missing something. So anyway, thanks again for supporting my decision to express a nonstandard view, even if you don’t necessarily agree with it. It’s amazing how few people are capable of doing that. I really appreciate the support.