Emmett Shear might also count, but he might merely be rationalist-adjacent.
metachirality
IMO trying the problem yourself before researching it makes you appreciate what other people have already done even more. It’s pretty easy to fall victim to hindsight bias if you haven’t experienced the difficulty of actually getting anywhere.
they figure out planting and then rationally collaborate with each other?
I feel like they would end up converging on the same problems that plague human sociality.
I think asociality might prevent the development of altruistic ethics.
Also it’s hard to see how an asocial species would develop civilization.
This reminds me of Moravec’s paradox.
You should read Greg Egan’s excellent novel Permutation City.
I think working on safety roles at capabilities orgs is mostly mutually exclusive with a pause, so I don’t think this is that remarkable.
Sorta? Usually the idea is that the presence or absence of hardware determines the anthropic probability of being that conscious process, otherwise you would expect to be some random arbitrary Boltzmann brain-like conscious.
Also this is an immediate corollary of the mathematical universe hypothesis, which says our universe is a mathematical structure.
I feel like you’re not giving enough credit to Greg Egan since he came up with all the philosophy himself.
Let’s hope not!
I remember going to a city and seeing someone on the subway loudly threatening nonexistent people. I wasn’t scared, I just felt bad that in all likelihood, the world had failed this person through no fault of their own.
I like this format and framing of “90% of what matters” and someone should try doing it with other subjects.
Decision theory/trade reasons
I think this still means MIRI is correct when it comes to the expected value though
The thing that got me was Pause AI trying to coalition with people against AI art. I don’t really have anything against the idea of a pause but Pause AI seems a bit simulacrum level 2 for me.
A subpoena for what?
I don’t think I’m really looking for something like that, since it doesn’t touch on the perception of music as much as it does the reasons why we have it.
[Question] Why do we enjoy music?
Isn’t TLP’s email on his website?
Sure, I just prefer a native bookmarking function.
I think the thing that actually makes people more rational is thinking of them as principles you can apply to your own life rather than abstract notions, which is hard to communicate in a Wikipedia page about Dutch books.