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• lacker 25 Sep 2014 6:50 UTC

  −8 points

  on: Si­mu­la­tion ar­gu­ment meets de­ci­sion theory

  Sim. Who cares about the utility function of the simulated beings. Maybe the computer will simulate another billion of them a second later.

• lacker 21 Sep 2014 22:59 UTC

  1 point

  in reply to: Mark_Friedenbach’s comment on: In or­der to greatly re­duce X-risk, de­sign self-repli­cat­ing space­craft with­out AGI

  Hmm, it is interesting that that exists but it seems like it is cannot have been very serious because it dates from over 30 years ago and no followup activity happened.

• lacker 20 Sep 2014 23:10 UTC

  4 points

  on: In or­der to greatly re­duce X-risk, de­sign self-repli­cat­ing space­craft with­out AGI

  How would one even start “serious design work on a self-replicating spacecraft”? It seems like the technologies that would require to even begin serious design do not exist yet.

• lacker 20 Sep 2014 17:05 UTC

  7 points

  on: LessWrong’s at­ti­tude to­wards AI research

  That doesn’t seem like the consensus view to me. It might be the consensus view among LessWrong contributors. But in the AI-related tech industry and in academia it seems like very few people think AI friendliness is an important problem, or that there is any effective way to research it.

• lacker 19 Sep 2014 6:53 UTC

  0 points

  on: A kind or re­verse “tragedy of the com­mons”—any solu­tion ideas?

  Another problem you need to avoid is misjudging how much money you would actually save. That seems more common when the pain of misjudgment is shared.

• lacker 19 Sep 2014 6:51 UTC

  3 points

  on: Si­mu­late and Defer To More Ra­tional Selves

  Ah, it’s just like “What Would Jesus Do” bracelets.

• lacker 19 Sep 2014 6:49 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Florian_Dietz’s comment on: What are you learn­ing?

  It seems like picking this nonhuman metafictional stuff is a tough way to start writing. Maybe pick something easier just so that you succeed without getting so much writers’ block.