When I got back into town and talked with Jessica, she was talking about how it might be wrong to take actions that might possibly harm others, i.e. pretty much any actions, since she might not learn fast enough for this to come out net positive. Seems likely to me that the content of Jessica’s anxious perseveration was partly causally upstream of the anxious perseveration itself.
I agree that a decline in bodily organization was the main legitimate reason for concern. It seems obviously legitimate for Jessica (and me) to point out that Scott is proposing a standard that cannot feasibly be applied uniformly, since it’s not already common knowledge that Scott isn’t making sense here, and his prior comments on this subject have been heavily upvoted. The main alternative would be to mostly stop engaging on LessWrong, which I have done.
I don’t fully understand what “latent tendency towards psychosis” means functionally or what predictions it makes, so it doesn’t seem like an adequate explanation. I do know that there’s correlation within families, but I have a family history of schizophrenia and Jessica doesn’t, so if that’s what you mean by latent tendency it doesn’t seem to obviously have an odds ratio in the correct direction within our local cluster.
By latent tendency I don’t mean family history, though it’s obviously correlated. I claim that there’s this fact of the matter about Jess’ personality, biology, etc, which is that it’s easier for her to have a psychotic episode than for most people. This seems not plausibly controversial.
I’m not claiming a gears-level model here. When you see that someone has a pattern of <problem> that others in very similar situations did not have, you should assume some of the causality is located in the person, even if you don’t know how.
Listing “I don’t know, some other reason we haven’t identified yet” as an “obvious source” can make sense as a null option, but giving it a virtus dormitiva type name is silly.
I think that Jessica has argued with some plausibility that her psychotic break was in part the result of taking aspects of the AI safety discourse more seriously and unironically than the people around her, combined with adversarial pressures and silencing. This seems like a gears-level model that might be more likely in people with a cognitive disposition correlated with psychosis.
When I got back into town and talked with Jessica, she was talking about how it might be wrong to take actions that might possibly harm others, i.e. pretty much any actions, since she might not learn fast enough for this to come out net positive. Seems likely to me that the content of Jessica’s anxious perseveration was partly causally upstream of the anxious perseveration itself.
I agree that a decline in bodily organization was the main legitimate reason for concern. It seems obviously legitimate for Jessica (and me) to point out that Scott is proposing a standard that cannot feasibly be applied uniformly, since it’s not already common knowledge that Scott isn’t making sense here, and his prior comments on this subject have been heavily upvoted. The main alternative would be to mostly stop engaging on LessWrong, which I have done.
I don’t fully understand what “latent tendency towards psychosis” means functionally or what predictions it makes, so it doesn’t seem like an adequate explanation. I do know that there’s correlation within families, but I have a family history of schizophrenia and Jessica doesn’t, so if that’s what you mean by latent tendency it doesn’t seem to obviously have an odds ratio in the correct direction within our local cluster.
By latent tendency I don’t mean family history, though it’s obviously correlated. I claim that there’s this fact of the matter about Jess’ personality, biology, etc, which is that it’s easier for her to have a psychotic episode than for most people. This seems not plausibly controversial.
I’m not claiming a gears-level model here. When you see that someone has a pattern of <problem> that others in very similar situations did not have, you should assume some of the causality is located in the person, even if you don’t know how.
Listing “I don’t know, some other reason we haven’t identified yet” as an “obvious source” can make sense as a null option, but giving it a virtus dormitiva type name is silly.
I think that Jessica has argued with some plausibility that her psychotic break was in part the result of taking aspects of the AI safety discourse more seriously and unironically than the people around her, combined with adversarial pressures and silencing. This seems like a gears-level model that might be more likely in people with a cognitive disposition correlated with psychosis.