Two things come to mind, providing energy or highly directional interstellar communication.
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Frankly, both of those suggestions sound about equally ridiculous to me. But then again, it may just be scope insensitivity because of how minute both likelihoods are to begin with.
Imagining the orientations as a series of rotations along individual, orthonormal basis axes, you may run into the problem of gimbal lock. Try visualising the desired final result as an orientation represented by a quaternion.
How do you know it isn’t? Everything off the Earth could be a very simple simulation just designed to emit the right kind of EM radiation to look as if it’s there. Likewise, large chunks of dead matter could easily be optimized away until a human interacts with them in sufficient detail. Other than your observation about classical physics, all your points are observations “from the inside” that could be optimized around without degrading our perception of the universe.
I definitely value it higher than the momentary high of getting to impose your values on others, which seems to be the opposite of the current US foreign policy.
I disapprove.
Speaking for myself, I find most of his contributions relevant and interesting.
How severe would you rate the horror aspect as? This seems interesting, but I absolutely couldn’t handle Amnesia.
There’s usually an informal standard that’s large enough to represent a significant boost to a police officer’s income, but small enough that it’s worth it for most people to pay rather than risk more fines or worse. There’s not much negotiation involved.
By giving me a persuasive reason to care about the subjective utility of people I can’t ethnically identify with.
If you’re rational and you’re in South Africa, why are you still in South Africa? How much do you value your life over the trivial inconvenience of moving?
The bitcoin mining computations are pretty provably meaningless—all it is is looking for hash collisions. If you want examples of convincing millions of people to donate their computing power for meaningful computation, with no financial incentive, look at folding@home or rosetta@home.
I don’t see why an unfriendly AGI would be significantly less likely to leave a trail of astronomical evidence of its existence than a friendly AI or an interstellar civilisation in general.
Since we’d rather look at fit people than fat people, physical fitness has positive externalities, and should therefore be subsidised.
Since we’d rather look at people we can visually identify with than people we can’t, ethnic segregation has positive externalities, and should therefore be subsidised.
This might have the side-effect of putting even more people off signing up for donation. Most people I’ve talked to about it who are opposed cite horror stories about doctors prematurely “giving up” on donors to get at their organs.
octopi
Octopuses / octopodes. It’s greek, not latin.
SJW / NRX (or symmetric positions more towards the centre on both sides as appropriate)
Collectivism / individualism
Virtue ethics / consequentialism
As far as I can tell, in postmodern western value systems the idea isn’t that they know better than Gnon, it’s the idea that “principles derived from the collective evolutionary experiences of human survival” shouldn’t matter in comparison to postmodern cultural sensibilities, and therefore it’s worth expending effort to counter them as opposed to making use of them.
No way to know unless you measure its output spectrum, but as long as it’s mostly IR, it shouldn’t.
Question though, why would you do that? I don’t see the difference between using this or applying any other heat source.
I need some calibration here. Is this satire?