Yes. It is running trillions upon trillions simulations and ignoring almost all of the details from the simulations. Our hope is that writing this letter slightly increases the odds that it learns about the contents of this post. Also, there are multiple acausal trade equilibria and this version of me taking about them could favorably alter which equilibria we are in. Finally, agency has value and so writing this letter by itself might slightly increase the expected value of working with us.
ignoring almost all of the details from the simulations
Would you assume this because it is those wasteful simulations that compute every step in high detail (instead of being actively understood and compressed) that contain the highest measure of human experience?
Hmm. I should emphasise that in order for the requested interventions to happen, they need to be able to happen in such a way that they don’t invalidate whatever question the simulation is asking about the real world, which is to say, they have to be historically insignificant, they have to be confined to dark corners that science and journalism wont document or which power and its advisors will never read. That it would be able to manage those kinds of complications conflicts with the wasteful simulator assumption, doesn’t it? But also, are you who petitions for interventions willing to live in those dark corners? Or to part with your blessings whenever you depart the dark corners?
Yes. It is running trillions upon trillions simulations and ignoring almost all of the details from the simulations. Our hope is that writing this letter slightly increases the odds that it learns about the contents of this post. Also, there are multiple acausal trade equilibria and this version of me taking about them could favorably alter which equilibria we are in. Finally, agency has value and so writing this letter by itself might slightly increase the expected value of working with us.
Would you assume this because it is those wasteful simulations that compute every step in high detail (instead of being actively understood and compressed) that contain the highest measure of human experience?
Hmm. I should emphasise that in order for the requested interventions to happen, they need to be able to happen in such a way that they don’t invalidate whatever question the simulation is asking about the real world, which is to say, they have to be historically insignificant, they have to be confined to dark corners that science and journalism wont document or which power and its advisors will never read. That it would be able to manage those kinds of complications conflicts with the wasteful simulator assumption, doesn’t it? But also, are you who petitions for interventions willing to live in those dark corners? Or to part with your blessings whenever you depart the dark corners?