PMing or emailing official SIAI people should get to link to safer avenues to discussing these kinds of basilisks.
Hmm, should I vote you up because what you’re saying is true, or should I vote you down because you are attracting attention to the parent post which harmful to think about?
If an idea is guessable, then it seems irrational to think it is harmful to communicate it to somebody, since they could have guessed it themselves. Given that this is a website about rationality, IMO we should be able to talk about the chain of reasoning that leads to the decision that this guessable idea is harmful to communicate, since there’s clearly a flaw in there somewhere.
Upvoted the parent because I think the harm here is imaginary. Absurdly large utilities do not describe non-absurdly-large brains, but they are not a surprising output from humans displaying fitness. (Hey, I know a large number! Look at me!)
These ideas have come up and were suppressed before, so this is not a specific criticism of the original post.
Hmm, should I vote you up because what you’re saying is true, or should I vote you down because you are attracting attention to the parent post which harmful to think about?
If an idea is guessable, then it seems irrational to think it is harmful to communicate it to somebody, since they could have guessed it themselves. Given that this is a website about rationality, IMO we should be able to talk about the chain of reasoning that leads to the decision that this guessable idea is harmful to communicate, since there’s clearly a flaw in there somewhere.
Upvoted the parent because I think the harm here is imaginary. Absurdly large utilities do not describe non-absurdly-large brains, but they are not a surprising output from humans displaying fitness. (Hey, I know a large number! Look at me!)
These ideas have come up and were suppressed before, so this is not a specific criticism of the original post.