Huh, I just started rereading a few of your posts yesterday, including this one… and by what I assume is complete coincidence, I met someone today named Oliver, who looked nothing like an Oliver. This one didn’t look like a Bill, though; I think he was more of a Nate.
Zane
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No knowledge of prior art, but what do you mean by negative things that give people ideas? I was under impression that most of the examples people talk about involved things that were pretty limited to superhuman capabilities for the time being—self-replicating nanotech and so on. Or are you asking about something other than extinction risk, like chatbots manipulating people or something along those lines? Could you clarify?
Hi! I’m Zane! A couple of you might have encountered me from glowfic, although I’ve been reading LW since long before I started writing any glowfic. Aspiring rationalist, hoping to avoid getting killed by unaligned AGI, and so on. (Not that I want to be killed by anything else, either, of course.) I have a couple posts I wanted to make about various topics from LW, and I’m hoping to have some fun discussions here!
Also, the popup thingy that appears when a new user tries to make a comment has a bug—the links in it are directed to localhost:3001 instead of lesswrong.com (or was it 3000? the window went away, I can’t see it anymore.) Also, even after I replace the localhost:300[something] with lesswrong.com, one of the links still doesn’t work because it looks like the post it goes to is deleted.
This is cool! You might want to reposition the “How to use” message a little; it’s currently covering up the button that lets you add more hypotheses, so it took me a while to find it.