By “extremely risk-averse” do you mean “working hard to maximise persistence odds” or “very scared of scary scenarios”?
You’re right that death while signed up for cryonics is still a very bad thing, though. I don’t think Eliezer would be fine with deaths if they were signed up, but sometimes he makes it seem that way.
Heres what I’ve gathered from you so far: You have not been more insightful since castration, but you have been calmer, and less influenced by some unspecific bias. You see testosterone as you see blood alcohol, and prefer its absence.
If you’re interested in persuading us, stop promoting your brand with single sentences and go in to more detail.
Do you think you could summarise it for everybody in a post?
I’d be interested in reading (but not writing) a post about rationalist relationships, specifically the interplay of manipulation, honesty and respect.
Seems more like a group chat than a post, but let’s see what you all think.
I would upvote this because it’s important that you answered the question and I don’t want to discourage that, but I don’t want to imply that I like your honor system solution.
Current drugs will only give you a bit of pleasure before wrecking you in some way or another.
CronoDAS should be doing his best to stay alive, his current pain being a down payment on future real wireheading.
We talk a lot about bringing new people in to the community, well, here they are.
Not to imply that you’re doing it wrong, but has any thought been put in to how to better handle these sorts of situations?
Don’t assume the rationalists have super powerful technology.
Echoing this, but dont limit your reply to solely card-games, if you have anything else to add.
Mensa themselves say they aim to take the top 2% of the population. This strikes me as too many to be useful.
Useful for what?
If I thought my own comment was downvote-worthy, I probably wouldn’t have posted it
When downvoted you can hope for an explanation, and you can hate it when people don’t give one, but forcing one?
Since I would not be able to upvote my comment, upvoting someone else’s comment would suggest that I think their comment is better than my own
Huh? If you have no ability to upvote yourself, why would upvoting someone else’s comment indicate it’s better than yours?
Stop being vague and unhelpful
It’s nice to see that some players cooperate
The word “iffy” in your acronym should be replaced, I think.
if our beloved Omega takes up a job as an oracle for humanity, and we can just ask him any question at any time and be confident in his answer, what should happen to our pursuit of rationality?
dunno, ask Omega
I agree until the last paragraph, I seem to remember thinking that there was a way it could have been done better, and that I could excuse his error because he wasn’t overcoming an impossibility.
Unfortunately, I dont remember how I thought to fix it.
I’ve spent a lot of time scouring tvtropes.org for something similar, Code Geass was one of the better ones.
Any particular reason to single those two out? I might give The Dosadi Experiment higher priority.
As far as I know, there is no private-message function built in to lesswrong. I prefer to maintain some level of anonymity anyway, and it would hardly be worth creating an account specifically for this purpose. I don’t care that much, though a general idea of which character does it or when would be appreciated.
All that aside, reading it made the whole thing move a lot faster, which probably contributed to the enjoyment, but I otherwise I think they are fairly similar.
Seems that anybody who talks about being downvoted gets upvoted.