Thanks; I guess this made me better understand your interest in certain topics. And I liked the idea that there is a difference between imagining “your current mind in the body of the opposite sex” and “also having your mind taken from the distribution for the opposite sex, at the same percentiles where your current mind is for your current sex” (I used my own words here, hopefully I captured the idea correctly). When the Singularitocalypse comes, I might try both, heh.
(On a second thought, nope. Or, I would need to consider carefully which parts of my identity I consider too important to mess with. Trying different emotions, sure; trying different values, I’d rather not; not sure whether there is a clear line between these two, though. Considering the hypothesis that men are more likely to have fringe beliefs than women, and that rationality is a fringe belief, what if my female equivalent is not a rationalist? What if instead of reverting her mind back after the experiment, she decides to e.g. change her mind to be religious, because she will value social conformity highly? Those are scary thoughts...)
I think there is a software that uses machine learning to generate your face with different gender (or race, age, whatever), I wonder if that might be interesting for you to try. Maybe even some deepfake video. (I never tried such software, so I have no idea what is the quality of output or how much computing power it requires.)
Considering the hypothesis that men are more likely to have fringe beliefs than women, and that rationality is a fringe belief, what if my female equivalent is not a rationalist? What if instead of reverting her mind back after the experiment, she decides to e.g. change her mind to be religious, because she will value social conformity highly? Those are scary thoughts...
Makes for some great transhumanist ethics thought experiments. Would it be ethical to try out changing your values, with some mechanism that forces you to change back, even if you with those new values would be opposed to changing back and want to keep them?
And remember: on-site backups are not backups. Even if you are working on a git repo, it is surprisingly easy to screw up your commit history so badly you have to burn it all down and start over, and that is not by far the worst possible disaster.
Thanks; I guess this made me better understand your interest in certain topics. And I liked the idea that there is a difference between imagining “your current mind in the body of the opposite sex” and “also having your mind taken from the distribution for the opposite sex, at the same percentiles where your current mind is for your current sex” (I used my own words here, hopefully I captured the idea correctly). When the Singularitocalypse comes, I might try both, heh.
(On a second thought, nope. Or, I would need to consider carefully which parts of my identity I consider too important to mess with. Trying different emotions, sure; trying different values, I’d rather not; not sure whether there is a clear line between these two, though. Considering the hypothesis that men are more likely to have fringe beliefs than women, and that rationality is a fringe belief, what if my female equivalent is not a rationalist? What if instead of reverting her mind back after the experiment, she decides to e.g. change her mind to be religious, because she will value social conformity highly? Those are scary thoughts...)
I think there is a software that uses machine learning to generate your face with different gender (or race, age, whatever), I wonder if that might be interesting for you to try. Maybe even some deepfake video. (I never tried such software, so I have no idea what is the quality of output or how much computing power it requires.)
Makes for some great transhumanist ethics thought experiments. Would it be ethical to try out changing your values, with some mechanism that forces you to change back, even if you with those new values would be opposed to changing back and want to keep them?
Always back up the current version and work on a copy instead.
And remember: on-site backups are not backups. Even if you are working on a git repo, it is surprisingly easy to screw up your commit history so badly you have to burn it all down and start over, and that is not by far the worst possible disaster.