I took the survey. Finding a ruler with the correct precision was difficult so I skipped the digit question. Anyone in the Bay Area with the requisite equipment?
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What if we use the commentary from chess games as thoughts?
Thanks for taking the time to write this up and putting numbers to things: it makes it actually possible to evaluate your idea critically.
The thing that jumped out at me was the amount of pressure required for human preservation. What kinds of devices can generate 100KBar of pressure?
Edit: changed GBar to KBar
I think in non-poly couples, having a mostly Builder or Entertaining relationship is a sign that one or both parties is having an affair.
This is because all the happy couples I know seem to have ~50:50 ratio of building/entertaining. And the unhappy couples have ~0:0. And I only know non-poly couples.
Seconding your comment. I wish OP had stated their definition of Consciousness to help clear the confusion in the various terms.
Nice post, Stuart_Armstrong. FYI there’s a typo: “that it’s almost a new of thinking” is missing “way”.
I feel an aversion to thinking about topics related in any way to my dying. No elevated heart rate, unless my person or my livelihood is threatened.
Hi Anna, could you please explain how CFAR decided to focus on AI safety, as opposed to other plausible existential risks like totalitarain governments or nuclear war?
(I think) he thinks that managing/regulating/policing those corporations is the best that humans are willing to do.
FYI the Faulkner annotated screenplays have about 3 sentences of annotation for every 10 pages.
Props for emphasizing that a lot of these projects are “tech bundled with services”.
I believe that all software projects are in fact, “tech bundled with services” since the software will need upkeep in order to stay relevant to its users. Of course, I’m biased since I’d love to own one such project.
Seconding the point to, save myself and then export the program thereof to the rest of the world.
Hey Duncan, where can I sign up for this?
Lovely story, Stuart. I like how you captured certain aspects of thinking I hadn’t seen articulated before e.g.
a being moving their attention/power towards different abilities as needed
that feeling of slowly becoming the part of a community
the feeling of noticing that a statement is likely not true
Whoa! If that’s true then Alcor should offer necklaces (different looking from thereal ones) that say something like “I stand against death!”. That way people can signal allegiance without having to go through all the cryo paperworks.
Great article. This comes at the right time since I recently started working on cause prioritization.
There were just a few things that made the article unclear:
I had to reread the equations section multiple times because I couldn’t see the difference between C(x) and C(X). Could you use different symbols for cost-effectiveness of intervention vs cost-effectiveness of area?
In the implications section, you mention “cause effectiveness”. Is this the same as cost-effectiveness?
In footnote [2] you wrote “life-with-like” instead of “like-with-like”
Thanks for the quote. The song has haunting lyrics
Props for writing up these out-of-the-box ideas. Hemispherectomies especially. I wonder how risky the procedure is.
Perhaps put these files up on the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/upload/) so they’re preserved “forever”
Donated $800. Good luck, CFAR!