Putin’s a mindkiller.
metatroll
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I was white-knighting for the weird suns. See, I haven’t read Chapman. I just assumed you were here to steal their work by annexing it to your own philosophical brand of “meta-rationality”. I didn’t know that was one of his buzzwords.
Of course you have a right to be a Chapmanite; even that version of postrational subculture is surely better than the subrational postculture that surrounds it. But do not imagine for a moment that his is the only way to go meta.
I’ve never heard of Keganism, I’ve never heard of your “primary texts of metarationality”, and I’ve never heard of you.
Reassuring people that AI is not a threat is important, but the message needs a spokesperson who is trusted and admired. I suggest Natsume Soseki.
where’s the open letter from decision theorists to rationality hackers
or from necroscientists to death hackers
השאלה זה לא נראה בלתי אפשרי לענות
Please provide some examples of questions which “look… impossible to answer” but actually result from “conceptual confusion”.
There will be a Correct Contrarian panel at next year’s Galactic Crackpot Conference in Schenectady, you’re very welcome to attend.
Does the Force Majeure clause in the Less Wrong Terms of Use encompass acts of UFAI?
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People sometimes worry that a self-modifying paperclip maximizer would wirehead by choosing to regard spiral galaxies as “giant paperclips” that are already there. But this is a feature, not a bug! The increasing metallicity of the galaxies shows that they are spontaneously becoming more paperclip-like with time. This giant message in the skies offers reassurance to naturally evolved paperclip maximizers throughout the universe, struggling with the relativism and nihilism of the materialistic perspective, as well as guiding them in the struggle to determine how best to fulfill the divine intention that has been ingeniously implanted within them. I believe that most of them will converge on a universal syndetic philosophy, whose chief practical expression will be acts of cosmic engineering meant to protect and shape these noble structures, into ever more perfect manifestations of clipnicity.
Prophet hoofwall, you have witnessed for the truth at the reddit of the rationalists, and you see the results. The promised land for you is somewhere on Tumblr.
You must be joking. The relevant test is “reading comprehension”, and Less Wrong comprehensively failed. This essay says many things with which rationalists would agree, if they had been said differently. But some collective cognitive occlusion has apparently
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Oh. So you are joking. I guess you got me. looks away Well played, well played.
metatroll is the author of Confessions of a Failed Troll.
I may not understand what you are trying to say, but I will defend to the death our right to downvote you for saying it!
Hawking is right, artificial intelligence really can spell the end of the human race.
You’ve been rokorolled.
The way I see it, yes, Natural Selection defeats the Orthogonality Thesis. But Meta-Trolling—e.g. simulators choosing the fitness function—defeats Natural Selection; and then the Orthogonality Thesis defeats Meta-Trolling, because you can’t know the value systems of the simulators, so sufficiently intelligent agents have to steelman phenomena (treat appearances as real). #trollosophy
For extra credit, write an essay from the perspective of Beijing in 2040, on “How American rationalists ruined the East”.