This discussion has moved far off-topic away from EY’s general rationality lessons. I’m pleased with this, since these are topics that I want to discuss, but I want to mention this explicitly since constant topic-changes can be bad for a productive discussion by preventing the participants from going into any depth. In addition, lurkers might be annoyed at reading yet another AI argument. Do you think we should move the discussion to a different venue?
My motivations for discussing this are a chance to talk about critisms of MIRI that I haven’t gotten down in writing in detail before, a chance to get a rough impression on how MIRI supporters to these explanations, and more generally an opportunity to practice intellectual honest debates. I don’t expect the discussion to go on far enough to resolve our disagreements, but I am trying to anyways to get practice. I’m currently enthusiastic about continuing the discussion. but the sort of enthusiasm that could easily wane in a day. What is your motivation?
Some meta-level comments and questions:
This discussion has moved far off-topic away from EY’s general rationality lessons. I’m pleased with this, since these are topics that I want to discuss, but I want to mention this explicitly since constant topic-changes can be bad for a productive discussion by preventing the participants from going into any depth. In addition, lurkers might be annoyed at reading yet another AI argument. Do you think we should move the discussion to a different venue?
My motivations for discussing this are a chance to talk about critisms of MIRI that I haven’t gotten down in writing in detail before, a chance to get a rough impression on how MIRI supporters to these explanations, and more generally an opportunity to practice intellectual honest debates. I don’t expect the discussion to go on far enough to resolve our disagreements, but I am trying to anyways to get practice. I’m currently enthusiastic about continuing the discussion. but the sort of enthusiasm that could easily wane in a day. What is your motivation?