There is truth to what you say but unfortunately you are letting your frustration become visible. That gives people the excuse to assign you lower status and freely ignore your insight. This does not get you what you want.
This is perhaps one of the most important lessons to be learned on the topic of ‘pragmatics’. Whether you approach the topic from works like Robert Greene’s on Power, War and Seduction or from the popular social skills based self help communities previously mentioned, a universal lesson is that things aren’t fair, bullshit is inevitable and getting indignant about the bullshit gets in the way of your pragmatic goals.
There may be aspects of the morality here that is childlike or naive and I would be interested in your analysis of the subject since you clearly have given it some thought. But if you are reckless and throw out ‘like theists’ references without thought your contribution will get downvoted to oblivion and I will not get to hear what you have to say. Around here that more or less invokes the ‘nazi’ rule.
There is truth to what you say but unfortunately you are letting your frustration become visible.
LOL… indeed.
I am not sure that I am actually, in far mode, so interested in correcting this particular LW bias. In near mode, SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET bias kicks in. It seems like it’ll be an uphill struggle that neither I nor existential risk mitigation will benefit from. A morally naive LW is actually good for X-risks, because that particular mistake (the mistake of thinking in terms of black-and-white morality and Good and Evil) will probably make people more “in the mood” for selfless acts of charity.
I think I agree. If Eliezer didn’t have us all convinced that he is naive in that sense we would probably have to kill him before he casts his spell of ultimate power.
(cough The AI Box demonstrations were just warm ups...)
There is truth to what you say but unfortunately you are letting your frustration become visible. That gives people the excuse to assign you lower status and freely ignore your insight. This does not get you what you want.
This is perhaps one of the most important lessons to be learned on the topic of ‘pragmatics’. Whether you approach the topic from works like Robert Greene’s on Power, War and Seduction or from the popular social skills based self help communities previously mentioned, a universal lesson is that things aren’t fair, bullshit is inevitable and getting indignant about the bullshit gets in the way of your pragmatic goals.
There may be aspects of the morality here that is childlike or naive and I would be interested in your analysis of the subject since you clearly have given it some thought. But if you are reckless and throw out ‘like theists’ references without thought your contribution will get downvoted to oblivion and I will not get to hear what you have to say. Around here that more or less invokes the ‘nazi’ rule.
Edit: No longer relevant.
LOL… indeed.
I am not sure that I am actually, in far mode, so interested in correcting this particular LW bias. In near mode, SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET bias kicks in. It seems like it’ll be an uphill struggle that neither I nor existential risk mitigation will benefit from. A morally naive LW is actually good for X-risks, because that particular mistake (the mistake of thinking in terms of black-and-white morality and Good and Evil) will probably make people more “in the mood” for selfless acts of charity.
I think I agree. If Eliezer didn’t have us all convinced that he is naive in that sense we would probably have to kill him before he casts his spell of ultimate power.
(cough The AI Box demonstrations were just warm ups...)