Mod note: I often don’t let new users with this sort of question through because these sort of questions tend to be kinda cursed. But, honestly I don’t think we have a good canonical answer post to this and I wanted to take the opportunity to spur someone to write one.
I think my actual answer is “realistically, you probably haven’t found something dangerous other to justify the time cost of running it by someone, but I feel dissatisfied with that state of affairs.”
Maybe someone should write an LLM-bot that tells you if your maybe-infohazardous idea is making one of the standard philosophical errors.
Actually- I wont talk about it because it would take way too long right now- but more or less, because of this theory that I believe in, within my framework a true consciousness cannot arise. It would require infinite power, that would be impossible to obtain. Because consciousness isn’t just restricted to this place where we all reside, it doesn’t come from here. It lies outside of here, forever inaccessible to anything that lies within the boundary.
...Idk, still thinking about it and its pretty recent.
I used to have a philosopher friend that never graduated, that I could bounce ideas off of but hes an asshole and I cut him out of my life.
Hey there I just wanted to let you all know- we (I’m a system) have self justified that this idea I had is false and unrealistic anyways. So there is no infohazard anymore. Popped it out of existence
But it has helped me kind of think of a pseudo-scientific theory of consciousness and our place in the universe and what happens when we die, what love is...etc.
Do any of you want to hear it or where would I go to discuss that?
You can make a post or shortform discussing it and see what people think. I recommend front loading the main arguments, evidence or takeaways so people can easily get a sense of it—people often bounce off long worldview posts from newcomers
Mod note: I often don’t let new users with this sort of question through because these sort of questions tend to be kinda cursed. But, honestly I don’t think we have a good canonical answer post to this and I wanted to take the opportunity to spur someone to write one.
I personally think people should mostly worry less about acausal extortion, but this question isn’t quite about that.
I think my actual answer is “realistically, you probably haven’t found something dangerous other to justify the time cost of running it by someone, but I feel dissatisfied with that state of affairs.”
Maybe someone should write an LLM-bot that tells you if your maybe-infohazardous idea is making one of the standard philosophical errors.
Actually- I wont talk about it because it would take way too long right now- but more or less, because of this theory that I believe in, within my framework a true consciousness cannot arise. It would require infinite power, that would be impossible to obtain. Because consciousness isn’t just restricted to this place where we all reside, it doesn’t come from here. It lies outside of here, forever inaccessible to anything that lies within the boundary.
...Idk, still thinking about it and its pretty recent.
I used to have a philosopher friend that never graduated, that I could bounce ideas off of but hes an asshole and I cut him out of my life.
Hey there I just wanted to let you all know- we (I’m a system) have self justified that this idea I had is false and unrealistic anyways. So there is no infohazard anymore. Popped it out of existence
But it has helped me kind of think of a pseudo-scientific theory of consciousness and our place in the universe and what happens when we die, what love is...etc.
Do any of you want to hear it or where would I go to discuss that?
You can make a post or shortform discussing it and see what people think. I recommend front loading the main arguments, evidence or takeaways so people can easily get a sense of it—people often bounce off long worldview posts from newcomers