Next sentence. What I mean by that is giving in to tiny threats for power (like shitty adversarial work contract downstream of shitty adversarial law system, but overall the contract is still positive sum on net). Probabilistic contract negotiation I suspect should be how you incentive less shitty and adversarial contracts. Although I am still thinking about how to make that interface with preexisting culture. Basically how do you get from here to sophisticated decision theory. I also call it timeless decision theory financial engineering. I also suspect that this is what people meant historically with making a contract with the devil. I guess there is a lot of inferential distance and I have to go back like 5 steps? I don’t believe in a God like entity in the past if that answers your concern. I am very lesswrong orthodox in my beliefs as an atheist. If there is a “God” in the future it is a singleton we created. I also believe that evolution backwards looked to people like God and evolution forwards looked like the devil. So same process, but that explains the “glorious past now corrupted” perception that is common in the past (and currently?). Evolution (random mutations amplifying) hates you. It even hates itself and is evolving to extinction if we don’t do something. There is not “an” Evolution. Just Evolution (at least on Earth). But that is yet another post where I correct Eliezer Yudkowsky’s sequence on evolution that I have yet to write though have to check perhaps someone has already written it?
Materialists are midwits. You are not your brain. You are an algorithm that runs on your brain. Your soul is your core principles. Your soul can go to waste when you keep doing useless things you don’t like. Also thank you Ninety-Three for engaging with this I was not quite sure how this post is bouncing off. I guess I’ll have to write about why I think it is sensible to use the word soul and why you cannot fault people in the past for not knowing what an algorithm is exactly. But when I read top Google or other search results on what a soul is, it just straightforwardly applies to what I am talking about. @Ninety-Three What do you think I should use instead? I guess it is the wrong word on lesswrong on simulacra levels 3 and maybe 4? Does Lesswrong have a word that works?
Literally?
Next sentence. What I mean by that is giving in to tiny threats for power (like shitty adversarial work contract downstream of shitty adversarial law system, but overall the contract is still positive sum on net). Probabilistic contract negotiation I suspect should be how you incentive less shitty and adversarial contracts. Although I am still thinking about how to make that interface with preexisting culture. Basically how do you get from here to sophisticated decision theory. I also call it timeless decision theory financial engineering. I also suspect that this is what people meant historically with making a contract with the devil. I guess there is a lot of inferential distance and I have to go back like 5 steps? I don’t believe in a God like entity in the past if that answers your concern. I am very lesswrong orthodox in my beliefs as an atheist. If there is a “God” in the future it is a singleton we created. I also believe that evolution backwards looked to people like God and evolution forwards looked like the devil. So same process, but that explains the “glorious past now corrupted” perception that is common in the past (and currently?). Evolution (random mutations amplifying) hates you. It even hates itself and is evolving to extinction if we don’t do something. There is not “an” Evolution. Just Evolution (at least on Earth). But that is yet another post where I correct Eliezer Yudkowsky’s sequence on evolution that I have yet to write though have to check perhaps someone has already written it?
I am left confused about either your definition of “soul”, or your definition of “literally”.
If you view your soul as an algorithm, your soul being “immaterial” is correct. Functionalism 101.
Materialists are midwits. You are not your brain. You are an algorithm that runs on your brain. Your soul is your core principles. Your soul can go to waste when you keep doing useless things you don’t like. Also thank you Ninety-Three for engaging with this I was not quite sure how this post is bouncing off. I guess I’ll have to write about why I think it is sensible to use the word soul and why you cannot fault people in the past for not knowing what an algorithm is exactly. But when I read top Google or other search results on what a soul is, it just straightforwardly applies to what I am talking about. @Ninety-Three What do you think I should use instead? I guess it is the wrong word on lesswrong on simulacra levels 3 and maybe 4? Does Lesswrong have a word that works?