So maybe the first step would be to upload some humans and give them more processing power,
I would like this plan, but there are reasons to think that the path to WBE passes through nueromorphic AI which is exceptionally likely to be unfriendly, since the principle is basically to just copy parts of the human brain without understanding how the human brain works.
Is your position written out somewhere where I can read it?
The smarter you are, the more likely you are to think you’re the exception, and neglect the outside view.
I didn’t realize until you said it.
Yep.
Sure. But religion is supposed divinely inspired and thus completely correct on every point. If one piece of the bundle is disproven, the whole bundle takes a hit.
With which of those books should I start?
I’m leading a rationality training group. We’re working through the most recent CFAR curriculum, but I also want to work from parts of the sequences.
Which posts in the sequences were particularly impactfull for you? Not just ones that you found interesting, but ideas that you actually implemented in your thinking about object-level stuff.
I’m particularly interested in posts that we could spin out into techniques to practice, like noticing confusion or leaving a line of retreat.
And as the level of interaction with the rest of reality increases, P(D1) approaches 50%. Right?
and this is de-coherence? This is why the macro-world is seemingly classical? There are some many elements in the system that you never get anything that doesn’t intact with something else and all the configurations are independent?
Clarification: an amplitude is the value of a configuration?
so { a photon going from A to B = (-1 + 0i) } is a configuration and { (-1 + 0i) } is an amplitude?
I’ll add two extra posts to the suggested readings, if you have time (but focus on the main four).
http://mindingourway.com/desire-is-the-direction-rationality-is-the-magnitude/
and
http://mindingourway.com/ephemeral-correspondance/
I might be pushing it, but it shouldn’t take more than a half hour to read all six.
I’m reminded of another Feynman anecdote: when he invented his own mathematical notion in middle school. It made more sense to him, but he soon realized that it was no good for communicating ideas to others.
“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”
Ursula k. Le Guin, Tales from Earthsea
How long is that preface?
Is it worth buying a more recent edition for the preface?
I chose to love regardless of how the other feels towards me.
Hmm...I would very much like to know if my very stringent criteria for basic-possibility-of-a-relationship will change with time. I suppose I should evaluate my goals and why I have those criteria.
upvote for noticing a (possibly) uncharitable reaction in yourself and taking steps to do better.
First thing you should do is talk to the people that are already involved in this. CFAR seems to be the gateway for man people (at least, it was for me).