(Updated with topic and some news.)
Roxolan
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This link is dead (possibly because the blog has been hidden then re-opened in the interval). Could you please update it?
if the proposition was actually false then at some point someone would have noticed.
You’re thinking of real human beings, when this is just a parable used to make a mathematical point. The “advisors” are formal deterministic algorithms without the ability to jump out of the system and question their results.
Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: Futurology!
If I were designing an intelligence, I’m not sure how much control I would give it over its own brain.
This sounds like it has the same failure modes as boxing. E.g. an AI doesn’t need direct Write access to its source code if it can manipulate its caretakers into altering it. Like boxing, it slows things down and raises the threshold of intelligence required for world domination, but doesn’t actually solve the problem.
It’s also a speed-boosting item in the video game Terraria. (I did not know the meaning of the word until now.)
If that’s what makes the world least convenient, sure. You’re trying for a reductio ad absurdum, but the LCPW is allowed to be pretty absurd. It exists only to push philosophies to their extremes and to prevent evasions.
Your tone is getting unpleasant.
EDIT: yes, this was before the ETA.
In the least convenient possible world, condemning an innocent in this one case will not make the system generally less worthy of confidence. Maybe you know it will never happen again.
Thank you. Problem solved.
Well now I have both a new series to read/watch and a major spoiler for it.
I’ve announced a meetup but got the day and year wrong (it should be December 14, 2013). Can someone tell me how to fix it, please? I can’t figure it out.
[insert obvious joke about meetup topic]
Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: time!
Who puts sanitation next to recreation? Well here’s why your excretory organs should be separate from your other limbs and near the bottom of your body.
Okay, but why should the reproductive outlets be there too?
I agree connotationally, but the comic only answers half of the question.
What’s the general atmosphere for newcomers like?
Friendly curiosity.
There will probably be at least one other newcomer to this meetup.
How much familiarity with Less Wrong is expected?
None. LessWrong is in the name, but really we’re more interested in building a community of like-minded people to have interesting discussions with.
How does a meetup generally looks like?
We’re a fairly small group at the moment; expect 3-5 people on an average meetup. It’s very informal. Mostly we just talk about interesting things we’ve read or experienced, often science- or technology-related, and we let the conversation go anywhere. Newcomers can participate like everyone else.
We’ve recently started picking specific topics for each meetup to have something to fall back on, though there’s no obligation to stick to it. Sometimes someone has an exercise or game prepared—this time it’ll be the memory palace if I can get it to work.
Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: memory!
it is a heck of a lot more likely that this weird childhood experience subtly affected my interests over the course of my life and led me to eventually study the field that I studied.
Or that you overheard (or otherwise encountered) something about microhydraulics, which caused both your fantasy and your PhD choice.
I’ll just keep the prefix/suffix as is and hope for the best then (“pancailloutisme”).
Meetup : Brussels monthly meetup: games!
I’m in the process of translating some of the Sequences in French. I have a quick question.
From The Simple Truth:
Mark sighs sadly. “Never mind… it’s obvious you don’t know. Maybe all pebbles are magical to start with, even before they enter the bucket. We could call that position panpebblism.”
This is clearly a joke at the expense of some existing philosophical position called pan[something] but I can’t find the full name, which may be necessary to make the joke understandable in French. Can anyone help?
I’d already signed up without knowing it was on the MIRI course list.