So what does “is magic real?”, as a child might ask the question, correspond to?
emmab
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Veganism?
Why does evil exist?
Do these things feel logically impossible per se?
Yes, same qualia as looking at an Escher staircase IRL but feels more fundamental.
Do they feel impossible because they contradict other things that you believe are true?
No. I can’t break down why they feel impossible.
Do you draw the conclusion that the impossible-seeming things genuinely cannot exist or (in the case of self-perception?) genuinely do not exist, despite appearances?
Kinda but I can’t maintain that because milliseconds later I perceive the “impossible” qualia again.
Free will used to feel impossible but now that I understand free will as related to e.g. the 5-and-10 problem it’s more… manipulable somehow.
standard model of PA = schelling model of PA?
5. A second machine, designed solely to neutralize an evil super-intelligent machine will win every time, if given similar amounts of computing resources (because specialized machines always beat general ones).
This implies you have some resource you didn’t fully imbue to the first AI, that you still have available to imbue to the second. What is that resource?
I feel a sense of impossibility that “anything could exist at all”.
I feel a sense of impossibility when I contemplate the recursive nature of perceiving myself perceiving thoughts.
I feel a sense of impossibility about something unspeakable that comes before and is outside anything else.
How are we sure we mean the same thing by the word consciousness though? All I can tell for sure is that ppl think consciousness is “impossible” (cus they try to invent quantum phlogiston to explain it), and something about consciousness engendering moral worth.
I don’t think I’d have less moral worth if I couldn’t recognize myself in a mirror. I still have moral worth when I’m not introspecting.
I get the sense of impossibility but I get it about lots of things, e.g. Greg Egan’s dust from permutation city.
I feel like maybe I’m missing something other people are experiencing here, but maybe not.
spectrum of qualia of rapid muscle movement:
1. wiggle back and forth with no delay
2. effort required to make individual movements one in a row
some actions are only sometimes available to me in form #2 e.g. glossolalia, patterns of rapid eye movement
sometimes it seems like a matter of training e.g. learning to wiggle my ears
I’ve been experimenting a bit with using vimwiki: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
This topic (affordance/encoding) is one of the universal entry points to systemization of fully general agency.
Submission: low bandwidth oracle, ask:
IFF I’m going to die with P>80% in the next 10 years while >80% (modulo natural death rate) of the rest of humanity survives for at least 5 more years then, was what killed me in the reference class:
disease
mechanical/gross-physical accident
murdered
other
Repeat to drill down and know the most important hedges for personal survival.
The “rest of humanity survives” condition reduces the chance the question becomes entangled with the eschaton.
i.e. I’m pointing out that selfish utility functions are less personally or humanity-existentially dangerous to ask the oracle questions relevant to in cases where concerns are forced to be local (in this case, forced-local because you died before the eschaton). However the answers still might be dangerous to people near you.
i.e. Selfish deals with the devil might not destroy the world if they’re banal in the grand scheme of things.
Decided to upload source to github now that I know arbital’s license: https://github.com/emma-borhanian/arbital-scrape
Licensed under MIT and Unlicense. Updated the drive/mega links.
Thanks for hosting, added link to post.
Please do not re-download the pages from arbital.com without good reason. I’ve added a single line of code to disable this. This is why I’m not uploading the source code to github, but did include it in the zip file you can download.
Running the code as-is will simply regenerate the HTML using the already-downloaded raw json.
Edit: This is being downvoted. I’m happy to reevaluate this and upload to github instead of merely including the source in the zip file. Please comment if this is what you wish.
Nvm. Arbital Scrape V2
Ok
I’ll wait to open source mine to see if yours is better then :)
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Without bound, as in, without there existing some specific bound you will never surpass.
Make yourself easier for your past self to index on. e.g. for an evil version, if Horde Prime wants Horde clones to work to benefit Horde Prime, Horde Prime can work to place himself in the center of the universe, which he previously programmed other Hordes to care about.
I’m saying something closest to #3. In order to specify an individual, you have to be able to point at them in some way.