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• Neotenic 11 Mar 2014 11:57 UTC

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  in reply to: Alicorn’s comment on: On not get­ting a job as an option

  Well, that at least part of the way into freedom.

• Neotenic 11 Mar 2014 11:28 UTC

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  in reply to: dhoe’s comment on: On not get­ting a job as an option

  That depends on your stance on many things: First of all having children or not. Second of all population ethics. Third of all if you think it is worth it to have a child whose life is better than neutral, or even than average, but not better than your own. Existentialism and First Mover Advantage are also related concepts.

  I feel your pain though, and my life would have been much worse if my Father had not been an instrumental Flower for part of his life.

  But if you consider your life worth living, there are several philosophical paths that do not consider your parent’s actions to be unworthy of moral appreciation. Check Toby Ord on population ethics for deeper insight.

• Neotenic 25 Jan 2014 2:27 UTC

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  in reply to: DanielLC’s comment on: How Not to Make Money

  Yeah.

• Neotenic 9 Jul 2013 4:46 UTC

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  in reply to: gwern’s comment on: Strate­gic Best­sel­ler: Tak­ing the Blog Path (4HS002)

  Yes, but I don’t think it happened for good reasons. Maybe it was just the feeling of something floating from the unknown unknowns category to the mildly known unknown. Maybe it was the feeling that only if you have the courage to try impossible things you can succeed in this kicking in.
  But I take it that it was just an emotion that didn’t correctly implement decision theoretic cascades of neurotransmitters according to what would have been desirable in a homo economicus perspective. So do many of our less rational emotions. In other words, it is not a feeling I feel responsible for justifying, I just took it at face value.

Strate­gic Best­sel­ler: Tak­ing the Blog Path (4HS002)

How can I strate­gi­cally write a com­plex best­sel­ler? (4HS001)

• Neotenic 31 May 2013 4:56 UTC

  13 points

  on: Cur­ricu­lum sug­ges­tions for some­one look­ing to teach them­selves con­tem­po­rary philosophy

  You may want to change the title to “Analytic Philosophy” or “Contemporary Philosophy” since Modern Philosophy usually refers to something far removed from anything related to “Good and Real” by Drescher.

• Neotenic 15 Apr 2013 5:48 UTC

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  in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: On mov­ing posts from Main to Discussion

  I know my question sounded like “I doubt you read all posts”, and I do, but regardless of that irrelevance, the important meaning should be: “Someone over 18 whose IQ looms large reads all posts?”

  Isn’t it a terrible use of your time?

• Neotenic 10 Apr 2013 0:13 UTC

  2 points

  in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: On mov­ing posts from Main to Discussion

  you read all posts?

• Neotenic 9 Apr 2013 22:30 UTC

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  in reply to: Eliezer Yudkowsky’s comment on: On mov­ing posts from Main to Discussion

  What about the reverse? Moving from discussion to Main once the author notices that not only his introspective evidence says the text is good, but also others?

• Neotenic 3 Apr 2013 10:40 UTC

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  in reply to: gwern’s comment on: A Ra­tional Altru­ist Punch in The Stomach

  I have some trouble conceiving of what would beat a consistent argument a googol fold.
  Now I don’t anymore.

  I stand corrected.

  Thank you Gwern.

• Neotenic 2 Apr 2013 19:44 UTC

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  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: The Un­in­tu­itive Power Laws of Giving

  I think he meant unintuitive in the sense of “not accessible by human intuition, type 1, fast thinking” not “hard to grasp upon reflection by my intended audience”

• Neotenic 2 Apr 2013 13:27 UTC

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  in reply to: Elithrion’s comment on: A Ra­tional Altru­ist Punch in The Stomach

  That is unreasonable because we have more access to means of helping the poor today. If you expect the trend to go on into the future, than 2 million tomorrow is always better than a thousand today, which approximates maximal 3 lives on AMF of SCI

A Ra­tional Altru­ist Punch in The Stomach

• Neotenic 20 Mar 2013 14:25 UTC

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  in reply to: wedrifid’s comment on: Car­ing about pos­si­ble peo­ple in far Worlds

  That is the first time I see you saying something that doesn’t strike me as reasonable, and I’ve been a lurker for a long time.

  Which indicates that I didn’t understand you.

  Could you please clarify what do you mean by “is” when you say “how the multiverse is”?

  For me it seems that we (humans) can talk about this multiverse thing. We can say stuff about other universes, like “they are epiphenomenal” or “they matter”. It is hard for me to just say “they are” or “they exist” and truly think that I know what I mean by that. It feels like I’m saying “they emerge” or “they magic”.

• Neotenic 18 Mar 2013 20:54 UTC

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  in reply to: A1987dM’s comment on: Car­ing about pos­si­ble peo­ple in far Worlds

  You should say you are following David Lewis I suppose.

• Neotenic 18 Mar 2013 18:46 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Shmi’s comment on: Car­ing about pos­si­ble peo­ple in far Worlds

  The latter, which I was clarifying in an edit to the original post as you asked.

  I still think it is productive to instrumentally talk of Many Worlds, to see which concepts break.

• Neotenic 18 Mar 2013 18:26 UTC

  4 points

  in reply to: Shmi’s comment on: Car­ing about pos­si­ble peo­ple in far Worlds

  Fair enough. So basically if my post was trying to immunize readers, you’d be immune already.

  I agree that people should refrain from using the word ‘existence’. If they are many worlds supporters, I think they still need some work done, that the concept of existence was attempting to do, but I claimed here fails to.

  If, like you, they are not many-world supporters, then ‘existence’ only means causally connected to me. And the word can be avoided without paying any price by saying its equivalent.