First, welcome to Lesswrong! If you’d like to introduce yourself, the 2010 thread is still active.
You’ve asked some interesting questions on this thread—unfortunately, Desertopa is the only one of your potential interlocutors I know to be active on this site. Even Desertopa may be reluctant to respond because your tone (“In case you haven’t noticed”) could be construed as combative, and we try to avoid that because emotionally identifying with one side of an argument leads to biases.
Regarding your question in the last sentence: there are a few posts addressing the rationality of intelligences generated by a blind idiot god on LW: The Lens That Sees its Flaws is one of my favorites.
First, welcome to Lesswrong! If you’d like to introduce yourself, the 2010 thread is still active.
You’ve asked some interesting questions on this thread—unfortunately, Desertopa is the only one of your potential interlocutors I know to be active on this site. Even Desertopa may be reluctant to respond because your tone (“In case you haven’t noticed”) could be construed as combative, and we try to avoid that because emotionally identifying with one side of an argument leads to biases.
Regarding your question in the last sentence: there are a few posts addressing the rationality of intelligences generated by a blind idiot god on LW: The Lens That Sees its Flaws is one of my favorites.