Thank you—I agree with you on all counts, and your comment on my thesis needing to be falsifiable is a helpful direction for me to focus.
I alluded to this above—this constraint to operate within provability was specifically what led me away from rationalist thinking a few years ago—I felt that when it really mattered (Trump, SBF, existential risk, consciousness), there tended to be this edge-case Godelian incompleteness when the models stopping working and people ended up fighting and fitting theories to justify their biases and incentives, or choosing to focus instead on the optimal temperature for heating toast.
So for the most part, I’m not very surprised. I have been re-acquainting myself the last couple of weeks to try and speak the language better. However, it’s sad to see, for instance, the thread on MIRI drama, and hard not to correlate that with the dissonance from real life, especially given the very real-life context of p(doom).
The use of ‘love’ and ‘unconditional love’ from the get-go was very intentional, partly because they seem to bring up strong priors and aversion-reflexes, and I wanted to face that head on. But that’s a great idea—to try and arrive at these conclusions without using the word.
Regardless, I’m sure my paper needs a lot of work and can be improved substantially. If you have more thoughts, or want to start a dialogue, I’d be interested.
Thank you—I agree with you on all counts, and your comment on my thesis needing to be falsifiable is a helpful direction for me to focus.
I alluded to this above—this constraint to operate within provability was specifically what led me away from rationalist thinking a few years ago—I felt that when it really mattered (Trump, SBF, existential risk, consciousness), there tended to be this edge-case Godelian incompleteness when the models stopping working and people ended up fighting and fitting theories to justify their biases and incentives, or choosing to focus instead on the optimal temperature for heating toast.
So for the most part, I’m not very surprised. I have been re-acquainting myself the last couple of weeks to try and speak the language better. However, it’s sad to see, for instance, the thread on MIRI drama, and hard not to correlate that with the dissonance from real life, especially given the very real-life context of p(doom).
The use of ‘love’ and ‘unconditional love’ from the get-go was very intentional, partly because they seem to bring up strong priors and aversion-reflexes, and I wanted to face that head on. But that’s a great idea—to try and arrive at these conclusions without using the word.
Regardless, I’m sure my paper needs a lot of work and can be improved substantially. If you have more thoughts, or want to start a dialogue, I’d be interested.
If you want we can try LessWrong dialogue feature to narrow the discussion.