bekkerd

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bekkerd 14 Sep 2015 15:57 UTC
2 points
on: How To Win The AI Box Experiment (Sometimes)
The character “Dragon” from the Worm web-serial convinced me that I would let an AI out of a box.

bekkerd 13 Jul 2015 10:48 UTC
8 points
on: Open Thread, Jul. 13 - Jul. 19, 2015
I live in South Africa. We don’t, as far as I know, have a cryonics facility comparable to, say, Alcor.

What are my options apart from “emigrate and live next to a cryonics facility”?

Also, I’m not sure if I’m misremembering, but I think it was Eliezer that said cryonics isn’t really a viable option without an AI powerful enough to reverse the inevitable damage. Here’s my second question, with said AI powerful enough to reverse the damage and recreate you, why would cryonics be a necessary step? Wouldn’t alternative solutions also be viable? For example, brain scans while alive and then something like the Visible Human Project (body sliced into cross sections) coupled with a copy of your genome. This could perhaps also be supplemented by a daily journal. Surely a powerful enough AI would be able to recreate the human that created those writings using the information provided?

Is it a completely stupid idea?

bekkerd 19 Jul 2013 10:29 UTC
9 points
in reply to: Kawoomba’s comment on: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 24, chapter 95
Aka Sophie’s World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World

bekkerd 10 May 2012 12:06 UTC
3 points
in reply to: XFrequentist’s comment on: Neil deGrasse Tyson on Cryonics
Thank you. Title updated.

bekkerd 4 Nov 2011 5:39 UTC
4 points
in reply to: betterthanwell’s comment on: Do we have it too easy?

[1] String theory textbooks provide a possible anti-example.

I can assure you that the maths in a string theory textbook will still be essentially correct.

bekkerd 31 Mar 2011 8:00 UTC
0 points
in reply to: CharlesR’s comment on: Reflections on rationality a year out
Thanks for this. That talk was an informative read.