Better yet, don’t go gaga. And use anchoring to your advantage—before haggling, talk about something you got for free.
Tiiba
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Well, if the donations they have to match go beyond what they’d donate anyway, they would donate more than they otherwise would. Plus, the goal is to get YOU to donate more than you otherwise would.
What’s up with the word “foom”, and why is it always in all caps? Can we come up with another name for this that doesn’t sound like a sci-fi nerd in need of Ritalin?
And if they’re modified? It’s a superintelligent AI. You can’t take it down with a shotgun, even if it’s built into your arm.
Sure, but it’s their funeral.
Another AI might succeed, but not humans. I think there would be at least a few weeks before another one appears, and that might be enough time to ask it how to make a true FAI.
Well, then they’ll have themselves to blame when the AI converts their remains into nanomachines.
Not sure what you’re saying.
I did mention explosions. And gravity? I don’t see what it could do with gravity. Although I see that it could do something with vibration.
It’s allowed to produce waste heat. I see no reason to let it make anything else. I know it can’t actially cut itself off from the universe, but it shouldn’t enjoy this fact.
Why? This is the whole point—to prevent it from interacting with anything not intentionally given to it.
AI that doesn’t want to get out
A problem I see with such a sequestered AI is… that it doesn’t stop other people from building free AIs. You have to be FIRST.
Sorry, I deleted the post without realizing you replied to it. I realized it had problems and decided to give it more thought for now.
I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily mental. But if it’s a huge lump of properties that can’t be explained by the rules that govern everything else, it would be supernatural. Or it could even be simple, but still have an exception to an otherwise universal rule. For example, in a Tegmark universe governed by the factorial function, finding a 10 could be considered miraculous. In our universe, it could be an object that doesn’t cast a shadow, doesn’t glow on the underside, and is not transparent.
Also, rstarkov, see my reply in the thread linked above.
These mathy definitions are, of course, for times when “supernatural” isn’t just a stand-in for “stop thinking about it!”
Did I miss something? Why do meetups have summaries agin?
Well, I dunno about that...
Actually, I said it wasn’t atheist AT ALL. About as atheist as Don Quixote was a knight. Even the atheism was a manifestation of the personality cult of Karl Marx.
There was also the issue of communism, which is nothing if not a cult.
Well, I think it’s pretty nice.
Well, I would NOT press the button. The average copy gets 500 years of being a creationist, plus half of an immortality. My values prefer “short but good”.
I will repost a quote that I posted many moons ago on OB, if you don’t mind. I don’t THINK this breaks the rules too badly, since that post didn’t get its fair share of karma. Here’s the first time: http://lesswrong.com/lw/uj/rationality_quotes_18/nrt
“He knew well that fate and chance never come to the aid of those who replace action with pleas and laments. He who walks conquers the road. Let his legs grow tired and weak on the way—he must crawl on his hands and knees, and then surely, he will see in the night a distant light of hot campfires, and upon approaching, will see a merchants’ caravan; and this caravan will surely happen to be going the right way, and there will be a free camel, upon which the traveler will reach his destination. Meanwhile, he who sits on the road and wallows in despair—no matter how much he cries and complains—will evoke no compassion in the soulless rocks. He will die in the desert, his corpse will become meat for foul hyenas, his bones will be buried in hot sand. How many people died prematurely, and only because they didn’t love life strongly enough! Hodja Nasreddin considered such a death humiliating for a human being.
“No”—said he to himself and, gritting his teeth, repeated wrathfully: “No! I won’t die today! I don’t want to die!”″