I wish I had never come across the initial link on the internet that caused me to think about transhumanism and thereby about the singularity;
I wish you’d talk to someone other than Yudkowsky about this. You don’t need anyone to harm you, you already seem to harm yourself. You indulge yourself in self-inflicted psychological stress. As Seneca said, “there are more things that terrify us than there are that oppress us, and we suffer more often in opinion than in reality”. You worry and pay interest for debt that will likely never be made.
Look, you have three people all of whom think it is a bad idea to spread this. All are smart.
I read about quite a few smart people who hold idiot beliefs, I only consider this to be marginal evidence.
Furthermore, I would add that I wish I had never learned about any of these ideas.
You’d rather be some ignorant pleasure maximizing device? For me truth is the most cherished good.
If this is not enough warning to make you stop wanting to know more, then you deserve what you get.
More so than not opening yourself up to a small risk of severe consequences? E.g. if you found a diary that clearly belonged to some organized crime boss, would you open it up and read it? I see this situation as analogous.
Or—if you don’t like that particular truth—care to say which truths you do like?
I can’t tell you, I cherry-pick what I want to know when it is hinted at. But generally most of all I want to know about truths that other agents don’t want me to know about.
There are thousands of truths I know that I don’t want you to know about. (Or, to be more precise, that I want you to not know about.) Are you really most interested in those, out of all the truths I know?
I think I’d be disturbed by that if I thought it were true.
But generally most of all I want to know about truths that other agents don’t want me to know about.
I’m not sure that’s a very good heuristic—are you sure that truly describes the truths you care most about? It seems analogous to the fact that people are more motivated by a cause if they learn some people opposes it, which is silly.
Heh—OK. Thanks for the reply. Yes, that is not that bad a heuristic! Maybe someday you can figure this out in more detail. It is surely good to know what you want.
I love this reply. I don’t think it’s necessarily the best reply, and I don’t really even think it’s a polite reply, but it’s certainly one of the funniest ones I’ve seen here.
I wish you’d talk to someone other than Yudkowsky about this. You don’t need anyone to harm you, you already seem to harm yourself. You indulge yourself in self-inflicted psychological stress. As Seneca said, “there are more things that terrify us than there are that oppress us, and we suffer more often in opinion than in reality”. You worry and pay interest for debt that will likely never be made.
I read about quite a few smart people who hold idiot beliefs, I only consider this to be marginal evidence.
You’d rather be some ignorant pleasure maximizing device? For me truth is the most cherished good.
BS.
More so than not opening yourself up to a small risk of severe consequences? E.g. if you found a diary that clearly belonged to some organized crime boss, would you open it up and read it? I see this situation as analogous.
Really thought you were going to go with Tom Riddle on this one. Perfect line break for it :)
You are a truth seeker? Really? I think that makes you pretty rare and unusual!
There’s a lot of truth out there. Is there any pattern to which truths you are interested in?
Yes, I’d choose to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and tell God to fuck off.
So, as a gift: 63,174,774 + 6,761,374,774 = 6,824,549,548.
Or—if you don’t like that particular truth—care to say which truths you do like?
I can’t tell you, I cherry-pick what I want to know when it is hinted at. But generally most of all I want to know about truths that other agents don’t want me to know about.
There are thousands of truths I know that I don’t want you to know about. (Or, to be more precise, that I want you to not know about.) Are you really most interested in those, out of all the truths I know?
I think I’d be disturbed by that if I thought it were true.
I’m not sure that’s a very good heuristic—are you sure that truly describes the truths you care most about? It seems analogous to the fact that people are more motivated by a cause if they learn some people opposes it, which is silly.
Heh—OK. Thanks for the reply. Yes, that is not that bad a heuristic! Maybe someday you can figure this out in more detail. It is surely good to know what you want.
I love this reply. I don’t think it’s necessarily the best reply, and I don’t really even think it’s a polite reply, but it’s certainly one of the funniest ones I’ve seen here.