Nick Bostrom seems to think it’s useful to alert the UN to AI. The UN is currently the best thing we have that handles international cooperation.
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I’m toning back my response. Nick had said previously that he didn’t think policy action could help the field of AI now (except perhaps more funding) but that it could help prevent other existential risks. There still has to be some reason why he made this talk, though.
That data must be flawed. Only by 1980 did life expectancy pass 52 years at at the age of 20. That paper suggests that hunter-gatherers were healthier than people in 1980′s which cannot be true. (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html)
I never realized how many people there are who say “it’s a good thing if AI obliterates humanity, it deserves to live more than we do”.
You might still want your children to live rather than die.
It will still be more “me” than paperclips.
In the same way other people do? I don’t see how it would be more difficult for Alcor members. They don’t die any sooner than the general population.
I don’t go to Main because it’s always flooded with Meetup articles.
I was surprised to see how health-conscious Bostrom is. Making his own foods in order to maximize health and not shaking hands. I thought that was limited to Kurzweil only.
And yet “His intensity is too untidily contained, evident in his harried gait on the streets outside his office (he does not drive), in his voracious consumption of audiobooks (played at two or three times the normal speed, to maximize efficiency), and his fastidious guarding against illnesses (he avoids handshakes and wipes down silverware beneath a tablecloth).”
What do Crocker’s rules have to do with this? Also, it seems carrying antibacterial wipe to use after shaking hands is excessive. The chance that he’ll suffer serious health problems from infection by handshake is so small that I doubt even the time taken for all these efforts is worth it.
When I switched dentists three years ago, the new dentist claimed to have found several issues during initial check-in and also said that my wisdom teeth need to be torn out as soon as possible. So I have that experience as well. Although, since then, she never complained about anything even though my flossing routine worsened considerably.
Do any of you do anything nontraditional to improve your health/longevity? What I’m thinking about is radical lifestyle changes, such as using dozens of supplements like Kurzweil or mixing one’s lunch out of raw ingredients like Bostrom, or avoiding all car travel and similar stuff, not exercise.
To the question, the average age is 27.6; the average level of study is a completed Bachelor’s degree.
Do you know of any remedy or prevention for hiccups? I can’t get anything trusthworthy out of the internet nor out of friends and family. All just anecdotes.
The tone of its Wikipedia page is strongly against its usefulness.
I also ask myself these questions and I’m unable to answer them. In the end, I exercise and modify my diet as much as my will allows without causing me too much stress.
As for valuing years of life, if I considered that the very best outcome of cryonics (as HungryHobo described) is certain, then, well, even for very small values that will result in cryonics giving me far more utility than exercice. I don’t value later years of my life that low.
Yudkowsky believes that cryonics has a greater than 50% chance of working, and that we will be able to have fun for any amount of time, so for him, the expected value of cryonics is ginormous.
I get quite a bit of disutility from forcing myself to eat a bit more healthily. My food diversity is very power; if I try to ingest one of many foods I don’t like, I will throw up. Attempting to eat those foods anyway causes me great discomfort. So that’s not a great way for me to increase overall utility.
On the last paragraph, it appears to me that the two basics—avoiding obesity and not smoking—are the best thing you can pester them about. But the other lifestyle choices have the expected benefit of a few years total, if you don’t expect any new medical technology to be developed.
On the internet, but especially on the HPMOR subrreddit, I find notations such as “Canon!Harry” or “Vampire!Durkon” or “HPMOR!Quirrell”. Does the exclamation mark simply stand for a space, or does it have additional meaning? And more importantly, where does the notation come from? Where was it invented?
Wow, I would have never guessed that.
I like this very much. Did the game work in practice as you describe in the example?