I was listening to creepy music when I took this & it was pretty unsettling when the distortion set in.
I got 89% but can’t vote. (I’m a lurker here; more active on the LW Slack.)
scarcegreengrass
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On a somewhat tangential topic:
They acknowledged individual and average IQ differences and realized the correct policy implications.
Where could i find some links about the perspective you mention here? About IQ as a trait, and related superior policies.
(It sounds like it’s very different from my worldview, but i have a personal policy of trying to understand unfamiliar worldviews.)
Thanks!
I was similarly torn between answers and i’m glad you brought this up. I think substantive realism is the most useful perspective here, but i clicked constructivism in an attempt to honor the spirit of the question, even if it was kindof a technicality.
For me, the hard-to-express part is that the universe cares nothing about human ethics, but it’s fine for us (humans) to view our shared utility function as objective.
((past-tense take) i survey)
You can be imperfectly synchronised across contexts & instances.
Just to clear some things up:
In some contexts, ‘smart contract’ is a misnomer: it’s just a computer program that resembles a legal contract but does not interact with the government in any way. It just moves money according to agreed-upon rules. I don’t think it’s common to use both a legal contract and a ‘smart contract’ to enforce the same agreement.
In the specific case of the project known as ‘TheDAO’, the terms of service does indeed waive all legal rights and says that whatever the computer program says supersedes all human-world stuff. (https://daohub.org/explainer.html)
All of this stuff is so experimental that there’s an exception to everything at this point.
You might be correct. I suspect you know more about the law side of this than i do.
Note however that in this case the code is being run on thousands or millions of anonymous machines; physical dismantling would be very difficult.
While lesswrong.com has a low population, the private blogs and diaspora communities are growing very rapidly.
Meme: Valuable Vulnerability
So like a policy of giving, emotionally? Ceding some control to and participating in the experience of a person near you? Which could be a bit like the Cooperate action.
I’m delighted by this perspective that the world and your self-identity are both external to your mental state.
From these comments i’m getting the impression that:
Being vulnerable here means some mix of being emotional, being compassionate, and being connected.
The idea is to be lightly vulnerable, or vulnerable within limits.
The name ‘vulnerability’ has the effect of emphasizing the paradox of desiring instability.
I think passive_fist was saying that they considered certain comments irrational, and that those fell into the (broad) category of libertarianism. That c is an element of set I and set L, not that L is a subset of I.
Something should definitely be tried about downvotes: It seems like the average value in many threads is below zero.
I should probably add that i’m looking for a positive and mutually-supporting LW-style community. But i’m sure other people would prefer a more brutally honest community. That’s fine and ideally we’ll all find sites that suit us in the end.
Thank you for asking.
turchin, i just want to say that i really like these idea-catalog infographics.
There’s actually some medical evidence for this, but it’s considered to be outweighed by evidence for mental materialism (eg lesions, Phineas Gage). There are case studies of people diagnosed with hydrocephalus as adults, who had something like 25% of the brain mass of the average adult, and yet this didn’t seem to affect their mental abilities at all. I’ve heard of people citing this as evidence of mental tasks being performed by an invisible soul, not by neurons.
EDIT: (In case you want more info, here’s the blog post where I heard about this. This is a personal blog I follow, but it links to some more official articles: http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116)