Not really. May be worth listening to while washing dishes or something but nothing essential.
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If people agree the test is fair and the randomization is fair, I’m not convinced it would not be stable after a generation or two. Pure sortition does retain that advantage, the IQ filter reduces this but the filter could be adjusted to increase stability. For example, say it took only the 50th percentile. At this level, coordination would be difficult as no one would want to publicly admit they weren’t eligible for sortition. Perhaps this would remain true if only the 90th percentile were selected, if not the 99th.
If anyone is interested in playing an AI box experiment game, I’d be interested in being the gatekeeper.
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Just be sure I’m understanding you correctly, what you’re saying is average utilitarianism prescribes creating lives that are not worth living so long as they are less horrible than average. This does seem weird. Creating a life that is not worth living should be proscribed by any sane rule!
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I don’t find this objection super compelling. Isn’t the reason average utilitarianism was proposed was because people find mere addition unattractive?
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Another fine point. People with lives worth living shouldn’t feel the need to suicide when they learn they are dragging down the average. I believe average preference utilitarianism is a patch for this though.
I can think of various patches, but I should probably read more on the topic first. Do you have any recommendations for a textbook or a book on population ethics?
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I watched it based on this recommendation. I’ll second it—great fun, great animation, but I don’t mind CGI. I thought I detected some Hannu Rajaniemi influences, too.
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I imagine a lot of the selection was indirect selection for neoteny. I think it would be much, much harder to select for domestication in octopi, as they do not raise their young.
I’ve been looking for a good Anime/Manga podcast? The one’s I’ve found have been ok but not exactly what I’m hoping for. Anyone know of one?
I agree, there is some magic to NGE that RahXephon doesn’t have—but I’m not sure how much of that is caused by the fact that I saw NGE first and it was the first Anime I ever watched. I love Neuromancer, but much of my love for it comes from the fact that it was the first science fiction novel I ever read. I had no antibodies. If I had read Vinge first, it’s likely I wouldn’t have been too impressed with Neuromancer, which has as many flaws as NGE.
I can’t justify giving NGE a higher score for the reasons you described, but I do slightly prefer it—though less so after re-watching RahXephon.
Read The Martian—not bad I guess, but a sort of celebration of terrible ethics.
Watched a lot of robot anime last month.
Rewatched RahXephon. I’d tie it with NGE at 9⁄10. I especially liked the first two episodes. I thought the romance in it was quite good, too. The animation goes off-model from time to time, but it’s serviceable. The music is wonderful, especially the closing theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aTUy44JA8w
I also watched Eureka Seven and found it vastly inferior to RahXephon—maybe 5⁄10 and that’s pushing it.
I’ve been enjoying Knights of Sidonia [slight spoilers] - a half-and-half mix of neat science fiction and annoying fan service. There was an interesting romance in the first season (and one wonderful scene of a couple stranded in space) but it’s pretty ridiculous how every female (including the eldritch monstrosity) loves the oblivious protagonist. Also, Izana has the potential to be super interesting but zer potential is mostly wasted.
As for the animation, I know it is controversial, but I think it’s quite good. It’s also obviously the future of the medium—people will get used to it. I’ll give it 7⁄10.
I’m with Yvain on measure, I just can’t bring myself to care.
I’m confused. What were you referring to when you said, “on this assumption”?
If you make Egan’s assumption, I think it is an extremely strong argument.
Why don’t you buy it?
It isn’t me at all anymore.
There will be a “thread” of subjective experience that identifies with the state of you now no matter what insult or degeneration you experience. I assumed you were pro-teleporter. If you’re not why are you even worried about dust theory?
Well, it might be that such observers are less ‘dense’ than ones in a stable universe
In that case most of your measure is in stable universes and dust theory isn’t anything to worry about.
But that can’t be the case, as isn’t the whole point of dust theory that basically any set of relations can be construed as a computation implementing your subjective experience, and this experience is self-justifying? If that’s the case the majority of your measure must be dust.
Dust theory has a weird pulled-up-by-your-own bootstraps taste to it and I have a strong aversion to regarding it as true, but Egan’s argument against it is the best I can find and it’s not entirely satisfying but should be sufficiently comforting to allow you to sleep.
That doesn’t seem very air tight. There is still a world where a “you” survives or avoids all forms of degradation. It doesn’t matter if it’s non-binary. There are worlds were you never crossed the street without looking and very, very, very, very improbable worlds where you heal progressively. It’s probably not pleasant but it is immortality.
Dust theory is beautiful and terrifying, but what do you say to Egan’s argument against it: http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/PERMUTATION/FAQ/FAQ.html
I would be interested in organizing this if no one else will. Would like the tips