Here’s a tiny bit of rationality:
The new arrivals [soldiers who’d died and gone to hell only to keep fighting] didn’t fight the demon way, for pride and honor. Rahab realized they fought for other reasons entirely, they fought to win and woe to anybody who got in their way.
Some things
For example?
Yes.
Looks like I’ve been using “terminal values” incorrectly.
If that distinction exists, my three formulations are not identical. Yes?
Well, all agents are resource-constrained. But I get what you mean.
My mom complains I take things too literally. Now I know what she means. :)
Seriously though, I mean readable, usable, computable information. The kind which can conceivably turned into knowledge. I could also say, we want to lossly compress the Universe, like an mp3, with as good a ratio as possible.
Neither. I guess I shouldn’t have used the term “terminal value”. See the elaboration—how do you think I should generalize and summarize it?
We cannot know what information we might need in the future, therefore we must gather as much as we can and preserve all of it. Especially since much (most?) of it cannot be recreated on demand.
Help me, LessWrong. I want to build a case for
Information is a terminal value without exception.
All information is inherently good.
We must gather and preserve information for its own sake.
These phrasings should mean the exact same thing. Correct me if they don’t.
Elaboration: Most people readily agree that most information is good most of the time. I want to see if I can go all the way and build a convincing argument that all information is good all of the time, or as close to it as I can get. That misuse of information is problem about the misuser and not the information (“guns don’t kill people”). Specific cases include: endangered species (DNA is best stored in living organisms), viruses (all three kinds), forbidden books, child pornography and other shocking information, free speech, Archive.org, The Rosetta Project, research on race.
Please post arguments and counterarguments in their own comments and separately from general discussion comments.
It’s 2 PM and I still haven’t done any work today. Thanks. :(
A tangent: if we found extinct life on Mars, it would provide precious extra motivation to go there which is a good thing.
If LessWrong is based on Reddit, and Reddit can spawn subreddits at will, why can’t LessWrong do the same?
I value time spent in flow times the amount of I/O between me and the external world.
“Time spent in flow” is a technical term for having a good time.
By I/O (input/output) I mean both information and actions. Talking to people, reading books, playing multiplayer computer games, building pyramids, writing software to be used by other people are examples of high impact of me on the world and/or high impact of the world on me. On the other hand, getting stoned (or, wireheaded) and daydreaming has low interaction with the external world. Some of it is okay though because it’s an experience I can talk to other people about.
Where’s the “neither” option? I don’t like open threads, but neither I do going off site. Why can’t we have a sub-lesswrong?
Actually, fuck it.
Come on, guys, we can do better than image macros.
What, really? Wait, what!? Uh.
Could you please answer my question directly in the form of “yes/no, because”?
Do you mean by subjective probability the fact(?) that probability is about the map and not the territory?
If yes, what does it have to do with anthropics?
If yes, what! Contrary?? I learned about it here!
If no, I’m completely confused.
Also, dear reader, vote parent up or down to tell me whether he’s correct about you.
I was offered life insurance by an Alico agent. What do you guys think? I don’t know what I don’t know about life insurance, so throw me all you’ve got.
I would get 36k€ if I was crippled 50% or more and 20k€ if I died or survived till 62, all for 260€ a year (that’s 5% of my current salary). Does anyone know what injuries constitute what crippledness %?