Dallas

Karma: 245

Dallas 27 Mar 2016 13:27 UTC
39 points
in reply to: Huluk’s comment on: Lesswrong 2016 Survey
For the interests of identity obfuscation, I have rolled a random number between 1 and 100, and have waited for some time afterwards.

On a 1-49: I have taken the survey, and this post was made after a uniformly random period of up to 24 hours.

On a 50-98: I will take the survey after a uniformly random period of up to 72 hours.

On a 99-100: I have not actually taken the survey. Sorry about that, but this really has to be a possible outcome.

Dallas 5 Mar 2015 22:27 UTC
30 points
on: HPMOR Wrap Parties: Resources, Information and Discussion
Protips:
- Given both demographics and recent discourse, you are going to want vegetarian and vegan options for food.
- HPMOR has a large hatedom, for various reasons. Key vectors for trolls are photos, videos, and flyers. Be more conscious than usual about personal boundaries and privacy.
- Public events are going to bring together people with varying viewpoints; be emotionally prepared for having your bubble popped by culture shock.
- Betting pools on the number of clueless attendees who showed up for the Potter and forgot about the Rationality are generally frowned upon by the general public. (That means you, Hanson!)
- Don’t be gross, in either appearance or manners.
- Don’t hand out pamphlets to the general public; it looks, you know...

Dallas 2 Feb 2015 20:12 UTC
5 points
in reply to: NancyLebovitz’s comment on: February 2015 Media Thread

The timeline continues with legal actions and arguments about what happened, but has no additional allegations.

You forgot me.

August 13th, 2013

Dallas J. Haugh

Dallas posts a suicide note which includes allegations of rape against Shermer. It is taken down by a relative when he is secured and taken to a hospital; after he’s released, he reposts it.

Dallas 2 Feb 2015 3:28 UTC
4 points
in reply to: bramflakes’s comment on: February 2015 Media Thread

Allegedly.

I don’t really feel the need to write that when I am aware of it from personal experience.

Dallas 1 Feb 2015 20:20 UTC
−6 points
in reply to: advancedatheist’s comment on: February 2015 Media Thread
Keep in mind the fact that he is a serial rapist, which kind of undermines his thesis.

Dallas 4 Jan 2015 15:46 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Gunnar_Zarncke’s comment on: 2014 Survey Results
I actually calibrated my P(God) and P(Supernatural) based on P(Simulation), figuring that getting an exact figure for cases where (~Simulation & Supernatural) are basically noise.

I forgot what I actually defined “God” as for my probability estimation, as well as the actual estimation.

Dallas 26 Nov 2014 23:24 UTC
−4 points
in reply to: XiXiDu’s comment on: Breaking the vicious cycle
Your updates to your blog as of this post seem to replace “Less Wrong”, or “MIRI”, or “Eliezer Yudkowsky”, with the generic term “AI risk advocates”.

This just sounds more insidiously disingenuous.

Dallas 23 Nov 2014 20:25 UTC
12 points
on: Breaking the vicious cycle
I’ve had to deal with the stress you are contributing to putting on the broader perception of transhumanism for the weekend, and that is on top of preexisting mental problems. (Whether MIRI/LW is actually representative to this is entirely orthogonal to the point; public perception has and is shifting towards viewing the broader context of futurism as run by neoreactionaries and beige-os with parareligious delusions.)

Of course, that’s no reason to stop anything. People are going to be stressed by things independent of their content.

But you are expecting an entity which you have devoted most of blog to criticizing to be caring enough about your psychological state that they take time out to write header statements for each of your posts?

If you want to stop accusations of lying and bad faith, stop spreading the “LW believes in Roko’s Basilisk” meme, and do something less directly reputation-warfare escalatory, and more productive—like hunting down Nazis and creating alternatives to the current decision-theoretic paradigm. (I don’t think anybody’s going to get that upset over abstract discussions of Newcomb’s Problem. At least, I hope.)

Dallas 22 Nov 2014 23:21 UTC
2 points
in reply to: Error’s comment on: xkcd on the AI box experiment
Paperclip maximizer, obviously. Basilisks typically are static entities, and I’m not sure how you would go about making a credible anti-paperclip ‘infohazard’.

Dallas 25 Oct 2014 15:02 UTC
52 points
on: 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey
I completed the survey. (Did not do the digit ratio questions due to lack of available precise tools.)

Dallas 23 Sep 2014 1:57 UTC
2 points
on: I may have just had a dangerous thought.
Can you be slightly more specific on the context? Like, at least the vague fields of study it might apply to? This would allow us to make an informed decision.

Dallas 25 Jul 2014 16:17 UTC
47 points
in reply to: Alejandro1’s comment on: Jokes Thread
“Is a even better joke than the previous joke when preceded by its quotation” is actually much funnier when followed by something completely different.

Dallas 4 Apr 2014 3:37 UTC
4 points
in reply to: Scott Alexander’s comment on: [Error communicating with LW2 server]
It seems like the both of you just want everyone to use efficient RVs.

Perhaps a travelling Less Wrong fleet?

[Link] Zack Weinersmith’s One-Liner Generator

Dallas25 Mar 2014 15:30 UTC

1 point

7 comments1 min readLW link

Dallas 16 Mar 2014 12:59 UTC
4 points
in reply to: Brillyant’s comment on: Irrationality Game III
I am very curious as to what your evidence for backing up this proposition is or would be.

Dallas 20 Oct 2013 20:54 UTC
3 points
in reply to: LoganStrohl’s comment on: Meditation Trains Metacognition
Okay, this is weird, but the first thing that popped into my head when you mentioned that there were images that used to be from this article was an image of a pony, vaguely Pinkie Pie looking. (being aware of cognition is weird)

I don’t even watch My Little Pony or participate in its community. Now I’m starting to wonder if it has evolved into some sort of toxic meme which is replacing itself into generic forms of things.

Dallas 5 Oct 2013 23:57 UTC
0 points
in reply to: Torello’s comment on: The best 15 words
A community blog with the purpose of refining the practice of rational behavior?

Eliminates human bias, doesn’t imply that rationality is an ‘art’, and proclaims itself teleologically rather than ontologically.

Dallas 3 Sep 2013 8:59 UTC
0 points
on: Reflective Control
I think I am currently in this state. (The inducing factor was probably going to a science fiction convention; I’m not sure why this is weirdly inspirational.) Does anybody have a roundup of appropriate posts somewhere?

Dallas 20 Aug 2013 9:52 UTC
−2 points
on: Torture vs Dust Specks Yet Again

Can you imagine Harry killing Hermione because Voldemort threatened to plague all sentient life with one barely noticed dust speck each day for the rest of time? Can you imagine killing your own best friend/significant other/loved one to stop the powers of the Matrix from hitting 3^^^3 sentient beings with nearly inconsquential dust specks? Of course not. No. Snap decision.

My breaking point would be about 10 septillion people, which is far, far less… no, wait, that’s for a single-event dust speck.

What’s your definition of all sentient life? Are we talking Earth, observable universe, or what? What’s ‘the rest of time’?

3^^^3 is so large that claims on this order of magnitude are hard to judge. See Pascal’s Muggle for a discussion of this.

Dallas 25 Nov 2012 23:52 UTC
−32 points
in reply to: JoshuaZ’s comment on: LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance
A list of outcomes possible in the future (in order of my preference):
1. We create AI which corresponds to my values.
2. Life on Earth persists under my value set.
3. Life on Earth is totally exterminated.
4. Life on Earth persists under its current value set.
5. We create an AI which does not correspond to my values.
If LW is not trying to eradicate the scourge of transphobia, than clearly SIAI has moved from 1 to 5, and I should be trying to dismantle it, rather than fund it.

Dallas

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