Given our known problems with actively expressing approval for things, I’d like to mention that I approve of the more frequent open threads.
FiftyTwo
If you feel sad when you shouldn’t feel sad consult a medical professional or therapist, they can help.
[Wish I’d realised that a few years ago.]
Completed.
Can anyone explain the Bem Sex Roles thing and why its relevant? I scored slightly more masculine and less feminine then average which confused me slightly. Its all self reporting though so I’m not sure how much it will express m nature vs what I value (like to think about myself)
Source?
That does seem like the sort of thing you’d do.
I’m going to hit you with a stick unless you can give me an example of where that has been effective.
Medicine is not in our nature. Show me a man who would cut someone open to remove cancer, and I will show you man who would cut someone open and entirely forget he was originally planning to remove a tumour
Exact same argument. Does it sound equally persuasive to you?
A brony, a fanfic writer and an AI researcher enters a bar, he orders a drink.
It should not take long, given these pieces and a moderate amount of iteration, to create an agentic system capable of long-term decision-making
That is, to put it mildly, a pretty strong claim, and one I don’t think the rest of your post really justifies. Without which it’s still just listing a theoretical thing to worry about
The claim made that donating to the SIAI is the charity donation with the highest expected return* always struck me as rather arrogant, though I can see the logic behind it.
The problem is firstly that its an extremely self serving statement, (equivalent to “giving us money is the best thing you can ever possibly do”) even if true its credibility is reduced by the claim coming from the same person who would benefit from it.
Secondly it requires me to believe a number of claims which individually require a burden of proof, and gain more from the conjunction. Including: “Strong AI is possible,” “friendly AI is possible,” “The actions of the SIAI will significantly effect the results of investigations into FAI,” and “the money I donate will significantly improve the effectiveness of the SIAI’s research” (I expect the relationship between research efffectiveness and funding isn’t linear). All of which I only have your word for.
Thirdly, contrast this with other charities who are known to be very effective and can prove it, and whose results affect presently suffering people (e.g. Against malaria).
Caveat, I’m not arguing any of the claims are wrong, but all the arguments I have for it come from people with an incentive in getting me to donate so I have reasonable grounds for questioning the whole construct from outside the argument.
*Can’t remember the exact wording but that was the takeaway of a headline in the last fundraiser.
I’ve known people be hopeless for months, then suddenly for no observable reason begin acting brilliantly, another reminder that small data sets aren’t sufficient to predict a system as complex as human behaviour.
I would think there should be a general warning against deliberately promoting the effects of dissociative identity disorder etc, without adequate medical supervision.
Science knows it doesn’t know everything, otherwise it would stop.
Personally: “Check you’ve taken your medication, exercised, eaten and slept sufficiently before giving bad feelings credence.”
More generally, when considering a question “Always google it first.”
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While everyone else is arguing the pragmatist has googled “Scottish Sheep varieties”
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I don’t think asking people already on LW is a good technique for getting a title that will likely attract new people. We would likely reference terms that only make sense to those who have already read them (indeed a lot of the suggestions so far are rationalist shibboleths/applause lights/puns, which are fun for us but unhelpful). And we know al the evidence about how bad people in general are at simulating other very different minds unless they have particular expertise.
Very few people here likely have the relevant expertise in marketing. Have you considered asking an outside specialist? A good title and marketing can make an orders of magnitude difference in impact (with the obvious implications for spreading ideas better).
Meta crap is tiresome.
Agreed. Especially when you don’t know the context of the discussion and it gives the feeling of LW being about a small clique of people and their issues, rather than actually talking about interesting things.
In general the site runs really well, all the stuff recently about not feeding trolls or filtering out newer people seems unnecessary and counterproductive.
There’s a mention of him being one of the few people who have used transfiguration in combat and lived, I imagine he has a set of techniques like this of which carrying a transfigured rock is the simplest.
Thought experiment
If the SIAI was a group of self interested/self deceiving individuals, similar to new age groups, who had made up all this stuff about rationality and FAI as a cover for fundraising what different observations would we expect?
You both managed to have this discussion without actually saying that IOW should be parsed as “In other words.” This was sub optimal as it forced me to google it myself. Hopefully this post will provide utility to future readers.