Q: How many LessWrongians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A1: In some Everett branches the lightbulb is still undamaged. If you kill yourself in all remaining branches, the problem with lightbulb is solved. (While you are at it, why not also buy a lottery ticket, so you don’t have to worry about broken lightbulbs anymore?)
A2: Changing a lightbulb would bring us closer to Singularity, and until we solve the problem of Friendly AI, this would be a dangerous thing to do.
A3: One LessWrongian writes an article about why it is rational to change the lightbulb, fifty LessWrongians upvote the article, forty LessWrongians downvote it. A discussion has soon over 200 comments, most of them discussing when it is correct to upvote or downvote something, and what could we do to avoid karma assassinations. Then a new chapter of HP:MoR is published, and the whole lightbulb topic is quickly forgotten.
A4: Eliezer already wrote an article about lightbulbs in 2007. What, you mean to really change a lightbulb? Please stop saying that; it sounds a bit cultish to me.
Q: How many LessWrongians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A1: In some Everett branches the lightbulb is still undamaged. If you kill yourself in all remaining branches, the problem with lightbulb is solved. (While you are at it, why not also buy a lottery ticket, so you don’t have to worry about broken lightbulbs anymore?)
A2: Changing a lightbulb would bring us closer to Singularity, and until we solve the problem of Friendly AI, this would be a dangerous thing to do.
A3: One LessWrongian writes an article about why it is rational to change the lightbulb, fifty LessWrongians upvote the article, forty LessWrongians downvote it. A discussion has soon over 200 comments, most of them discussing when it is correct to upvote or downvote something, and what could we do to avoid karma assassinations. Then a new chapter of HP:MoR is published, and the whole lightbulb topic is quickly forgotten.
A4: Eliezer already wrote an article about lightbulbs in 2007. What, you mean to really change a lightbulb? Please stop saying that; it sounds a bit cultish to me.
Also see here.