For some reason this is often really hard to make people understand
IAWYC, but who doesn’t get this?
Given our attitude toward politics, I’d expect little if any gain from replacing ‘humanity’ with ‘Less Wrong’. Moreover, others would correctly take our exclusion of them as evidence of a meaningful difference if we actually made this decision. And I can’t write an AGI by myself, nor can the smarter version of me calling itself Eliezer.
IAWYC, but who doesn’t get this?
Given our attitude toward politics, I’d expect little if any gain from replacing ‘humanity’ with ‘Less Wrong’. Moreover, others would correctly take our exclusion of them as evidence of a meaningful difference if we actually made this decision. And I can’t write an AGI by myself, nor can the smarter version of me calling itself Eliezer.
I don’t recall the names. The conversations would be archived though if you are interested.