Felix Karg

• Felix KargJan 9, 2021, 10:19 PM

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  on: What cur­rents of thought on LessWrong do you want to see dis­til­led?

  While I am quite the fan of current ‘idea’-LessWrong, I would love to see a collection of actionable rationality exercises, especially about core concepts such as those from the sequences.

  Explanations should be mainly for non-rationalists. This could be a go-to to forward to people roughly interested in the topic, but without the time to read through the ‘theoretical’ posts. Think Hammertime but formulated specifically for non-‘formal’-rationalists. Doing them should be entertaining and result in an intuitive understanding of the same concepts, and deeper understanding through having applied them.

  Basically, more exercises. More explicit application.

• Felix KargDec 30, 2020, 11:57 PM

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  on: Against GDP as a met­ric for timelines and take­off speeds

  Thank you, this post has been quite insightful. I still have this lingering feeling, maybe you can help me with that: what if the creation of unaligned AGI just so happens to not have any (noticeable) effect on GWP at all? Nanobot creation (and other projects) might just happen to not, or only minimally involve monetary transfers — I can think of many reasons why this might be preferable (traceability!), and how it might be doable (e.g. manipulate human agents without paying them).

• Felix KargDec 27, 2020, 4:48 PM

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  on: Alike minds think great

  Someone should start a collection of good translator-resources between different thinking styles. I might end up working on something similar in the far future …

• Felix KargDec 25, 2020, 5:21 PM

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  in reply to: avturchin’s comment on: Covid 12/​24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

  Correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression that recombination is not a thing for RNA-based lifeforms? That, and it would require at least some form of ‘pollination’, I believe?

• Felix KargDec 22, 2020, 10:25 PM

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  on: How Hard Would It Be To Make A COVID Vac­cine For One­self?

  Thank you for asking, I was wondering about exactly this myself earlier today—how much effort would it require creating something vaccine-like myself?

• Felix KargDec 22, 2020, 2:33 PM

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  on: par­ent­ing rules

  Thank you for writing that down. I would go so far as to argue that these are good rules for interacting with other people, not just children. How well someone does as a parent has a big influence on the children, but even everyday interactions tend to have an influence on other people (and yourself, for that matter).