(For the record, following your second link is what originally gave me the intuition that “fascist technocracy” might be a real problem, and that it’s worth investigating. Before, I was mostly like: “Oh, nothing to worry about, it’s just Mencius and he says creepy shit, but he’s nice enough really.”)
“How do you know that?”
“Have I interpreted your position correctly?”
“That’s uncomputable.”
“That AI would destroy the world.”
“That’s a fact about your map, not about the territory.”
“That’s a duplicate quote.”
“What does this have to with rationality?”
“That word doesn’t carve reality at its joints.”
“I want to do an AI Box experiment.”
“Apply the reversal test! You’re suggesting we kill all the old people.”
“I wish I could self-modify to . . .”
“I’d say something politically incorrect about race, but it would start a flame war.”
“I’d say something politically incorrect about gender, but it would start a flame war.”
“I’d say something politically incorrect about my ability to say politically incorrect things, but it would start a flame war.”
“Karma is being used to suppress dissent.”
“Your position is incoherent unless you’re a vegetarian.”
“Rationality isn’t that great.”
“We should do a survey on this.”
“That survey should have been bigger. We should do another survey.”
“Way too much of the scientific literature is wrong.”
“We need to make the karma system more elaborate.”
“The negation of that statement sounds just as true.”
“There’s an Everett branch where . . .”
“I’ve seen research on this but I can’t remember it.”
“My personalities disagree on this.”
“If this is a simulation, does that really matter?”
“My inner Robin Hanson says . . .”
Shit and/or Bullshit LessWrongers Don’t Say:
“Let’s agree to disagree.”
“You’re a Communist.”
“Just trust me on this.”
“That’s just like what the Nazis did!”
“Can you explain that with less math?”
“I’m a rationalist.”
“Haven’t you seen Terminator?”
“But that’s unnatural!”
“I don’t really want more karma. I feel like I have enough.”
Some of us read Moldbug and Foseti so I’m not too sure… ;)
(For the record, following your second link is what originally gave me the intuition that “fascist technocracy” might be a real problem, and that it’s worth investigating. Before, I was mostly like: “Oh, nothing to worry about, it’s just Mencius and he says creepy shit, but he’s nice enough really.”)