After a while in a conversation that involved me repeatedly referring to Lawfulness of the kind exhibited by Keltham from Yudkowsky’s planecrash, he said that he didn’t actually read planecrash.
Is this supposed to be a negative thing? I don’t think there is any obligation that people read any particular work of fiction in order to run an infrastructure project...
i feel like if you’re runnin a lightcone infrastructure project, you’re lowkey supposed to have read the existing literature on decision theory (sorry)
For a long time I felt that the people accusing rationalists of being a cult were ridiculous. This comment made me wonder whether I’ve been dismissing their claims too quickly.
Is this supposed to be a negative thing? I don’t think there is any obligation that people read any particular work of fiction in order to run an infrastructure project...
i feel like if you’re runnin a lightcone infrastructure project, you’re lowkey supposed to have read the existing literature on decision theory(sorry)For a long time I felt that the people accusing rationalists of being a cult were ridiculous. This comment made me wonder whether I’ve been dismissing their claims too quickly.