Jacob, or “Jisk” when there are too many Jacobs about and I need a nickname. Host of the North Oakland LW Meetups, every Tuesday.
Honestly pretty disappointed with the state of the modern LW site, but it’s marginally better than other non-blogs so I’m still here.
It should be possible to easily find me from the username I use here, though not vice versa, for interview reasons.
I find them visually awful and disable them in settings. And avoid using archive.is because there’s no way to turn that off.
Not that I browse LW that much, in fairness.
People typically only select into this sort of role if they’re a bit more prone to conflict about it, which means a lot of the work is kinda thankless because people are pushing back on you for being too conflicty.
Things can be done to encourage this behavior anway, such as with how the site works. Instead the opposite has been done; this is the root of my many heated disagreements with the LW team.
Addressing primarily Rethink Priorities’s talk at EAG.
Assume that digital minds will be most of the minds the future holds. Won’t this overwhelmingly be after whatever capability escalation passes for “the Singularity”, and therefore be addressed at 99.9% efficiency by delaying consideration of the problem after that capability exists and makes it vastly easier?
A myth contained in the classical Jewish text Pirkei Avot states that the first pair of tongs was created by God right before God rested on the Seventh Day. The reasoning is that a blacksmith must use a pair of tongs in order to fashion a new pair of tongs. Accordingly, God must have provided humankind with the first pair of tongs.
Wednesday yes, sorry.
Trying this again I think the question sets need a little work.
But Doctor, I am Kaufman!
EDIT: Oh wait, he linked this joke himself. I feel less clever now.
Paraphrasing Eddington: If your theory of morality is incompatible with factory farming, then so much the worse for factory farming. If it says not to touch the trolley problem, well, even nominally-obvious thought experiments can be wrong sometimes. But if it says to run a risk of death for all humanity for animals or minds that don’t share human values, there is no hope for it; so much the worse for the theory, at best, or so much for morality at worst.