My primary motivation for delving into WBE stems from a personal desire to upload my own mind.
This scares the hell out of me, even a very low chance of mind theft and eternal torture are just too risky in my opinion.
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A repairer wants your stuff to break down,
A doctor wants you to get ill,
A lawyer wants you to get in conflicts,
A farmer wants you to be hungry,
A teacher wants you to be knowledge-less,
But there is only a thief who wants you to be rich.I’m not sure how to interpret this. Repairers, doctors, lawyers and farmers are market inventions based on demand so technically they all want you to be rich. Teachers (at least in state schools) are more like a type of clergy with a sacred duty to their ‘parish’. So a more appropriate description could be: A teacher wants more teachers.
I would take this movement seriously and endorse it if there was a detailed plan for the future of the movement when the human race is still around in 2051 and I’m homeless and buried in debt.
we find that almost all the branches which provide definitions involving anything specific are of a sexual/procreative nature, with a few relating to status thrown in.
Procreation and status are arguably what humans spend most of our time and energy on. And we often mask our language as a means to an end. (That end is usually related to procreation or status). Could it simply be predicting or imitating typical human responses in a way that cuts through the bullshit?
Emerge, survive and proliferate?
This is fascinating and I have so many questions about the dynamics of such a game, especially if you could compile a lot of data over many iterations. What patterns would emerge and what would those patterns reveal about human psychology? For example, is there a common strategy or set of strategies people would eventually converge on or arrive at after enough time? Or what if it was played with groups? Such data could be an info hazard but it’s fun to think about. I’d love to play as gatekeeper if anyone is interested. I’m not very technical minded, I don’t know if that’d be a handicap or advantage.
There are a lot of solutions but they’re often too boring and not sensational enough for serious consideration. Solutions must be exciting and make the adopter look good, efficacy is secondary.
I would argue if skipping grades was normalized physical differences wouldn’t have a large impact on socialization (making friends, dating, etc.)
For essays:
Write a short outline and then do lots of research.
Using the outline and your research have a long conversation about the topic with a person that you’re used to having long conversations with. If it helps you can record the conversation or take notes.
Write the essay the morning or night after the conversation. With essays I find it’s better to work in small bursts (20-60 minutes) and go back to it periodically but that may just be a personal preference.
Have someone read it.
Edit.
For narratives:
Write it either in bursts or one sitting and don’t think about it too much. You can do it by hand or typed but don’t be afraid to jump around, write in the margins or write footnotes to use later or articulate what you’re trying to say or effect you want to achieve without including in the actual narrative. Just keep going until you feel satisfied or feel like you’re not making progress.
Put it away and don’t look at it or think about it for a period of time (2 weeks to 6 months).
Reread and edit.
Have someone read it.
Edit.
User friendly financial software that can help with saving and budgeting. And some sort of software that can optimize career potential.
Not being liked, being thought of as other or outside someone’s social purview.
I don’t think the main takeaway was to focus only on what matters, I understood it as advice to spend more time thinking about what is worth different levels of focus and why.
This was a good read. The problem with using dating apps to gauge success is that their methods and marketing are arguably incentivized to attract users who never form long term matches and still continue to use the app.
One possible explanation for lack of success that is touched upon through other explanations but never explicitly stated is the mismatch of expectations in our current always-internet-connected world. Depending on what you’ve been exposed to your expectations might be very specific/different from the rest of the dating market.
Yes. The more the merrier.
When you’re hungry and finally eat a satisfying meal which sensation is most comparable?
a. Helping a stranger b. Reaching orgasm c. Winning an award d. Scratching an itch
the next 0 to 5 years, which is about how long we have
Can you do a full post on how you see the next 5 years unfolding if it does take that long? I read takeoff speeds on your blog, can you assign best guess timeframes for your model?
The older a transhumanist gets the less you should trust them to accurately judge AGI risk.
This has some interesting implications. Reminds me of psychics who make confident predictions 100 years in the future but will refuse or be offended if you challenge them to make confirmable predictions within their lifetimes or the next week/month/year.
Maybe I’m not understanding it correctly, if I’m selfish about my own experiences I wouldn’t get into the machine in the first place. If I have no choice in whether or not to get in the machine I’d refuse the lottery ticket even if it was free just to spite my future copied self who gets to exist because I was destroyed.
Could Alice befriend someone who is closer to building AGI than Bob? If so, perhaps they can protect Alice or at least offer some peace of mind.
This applies to me, my work ethic went down after 2020 partly because of timing. I turned 30 in 2020 and before then mostly just did what was expected of me without putting too much thought into what I wanted. I’m still hardworking but much more choosy about what I’ll put time into and I try not to let social pressure affect my decisions.