Incidentally, /b/ might be good evidence for (b). It’s a rather unsettling demonstration of what people do when anonymity has removed most of the incentive for signaling.
I find chans’ lack of signaling highly intellectually refreshing. /b/ is not typical—due to ridiculously high traffic only meme-infested threads that you can reply to in 5 seconds survive. Normal boards have far better discussion quality.
Such an eventuality would seem to require that (a) human beings are not computable or (b) human beings are not Friendly.
In the latter case, if nothing else, there is [individual]-Friendliness to consider.
I think human history has demonstrated that (b) is certainly true… sometimes I am surprised we are still here.
The argument from (b)* is one of the stronger ones I’ve heard against FAI.
* Not to be confused with the argument from /b/.
Incidentally, /b/ might be good evidence for (b). It’s a rather unsettling demonstration of what people do when anonymity has removed most of the incentive for signaling.
I find chans’ lack of signaling highly intellectually refreshing. /b/ is not typical—due to ridiculously high traffic only meme-infested threads that you can reply to in 5 seconds survive. Normal boards have far better discussion quality.