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It kind of is. Just look at one Senator Armstrong.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 00:58 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 06:39 |
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Did you know that the yud has a Twitter and worm opinions https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1170022426891018240?s=20
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 03:19 |
The Iron Rose posted:Did you know that the yud has a Twitter and worm opinions a worm fanfic from yud would be absolute peak rationalism don't make me want such a terrible, terrible thing
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 03:22 |
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There's this, I guess? More Rand than Yud, but I think some of his works touch upon purestrain Rationality. I know there's an overlap between the Sneer Club and Worm fanfic authors, maybe they can sneer so hard Yudkowsky decides he has to show them how it's done.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 03:31 |
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The Iron Rose posted:Did you know that the yud has a Twitter and worm opinions Okay, trying to follow that line of reasoning actually made my head hurt edit: does he just not know what "empirical" means?
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 05:47 |
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Now, give thanks to the person who compiled those threads into ebook format, causing the author to abandon the third book in the series before it began. What's the story there?
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 06:07 |
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Stroth posted:Okay, trying to follow that line of reasoning actually made my head hurt His favoured approaches to science seems to involve secret cults or smart people sitting around throwing out ideas without testing them. So either he doesn't really understand it or he doesn't actually appreciate it.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 06:14 |
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Tiggum posted:What's the story there?
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 08:09 |
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90s Cringe Rock posted:That's about it. He said that having an ebook format floating around the internet meant no publisher would want to publish the books, so he abandoned the series. I don't think that's true even if he believes it. He could always try doing a Kickstarter. I mean, as I understand it Cassandra Clark turned her weird Draco Malfoy fanfic into a hugely popular book series.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 14:11 |
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Not sure how having it in ebook format would be any worse than already having it published for free on the internet for years not anyway. Also, that didn't stop John Dies At The End to get published on paper eventually, so it's spurious reasoning either way.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 14:19 |
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I think the idea was he could take the thread down or delete the posts but a torrent of an ebook version meant no-one would buy it, and this was before kickstarter IIRC, and also he was an internet weirdo talking to some dubious publishers.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 14:23 |
Cardiovorax posted:Not sure how having it in ebook format would be any worse than already having it published for free on the internet for years not anyway. Hell, JDatE got published twice.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 14:33 |
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I mean, I get where the guy might get the idea, it just doesn't seem like the fear is warranted.
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 15:07 |
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https://mobile.twitter.com/shenanigansen/status/1171180157916319744
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# ? Sep 10, 2019 15:29 |
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I went to the top of the thread to try to read some of Rationality and learned the author hopes to build "friendly AI." From the work it seems unlikely he'll ever achieve friendly AI. Conditionally benevolent (if sneeringly superior) AI, maybe, but friendly AI is likely beyond him.
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# ? Sep 11, 2019 15:22 |
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Necrotizer F posted:I went to the top of the thread to try to read some of Rationality and learned the author hopes to build "friendly AI." From the work it seems unlikely he'll ever achieve friendly AI. Conditionally benevolent (if sneeringly superior) AI, maybe, but friendly AI is likely beyond him. Yud knows as much about the actual, practical process of of creating an AI as he does about the contents of the Harry Potter books. Which is to say someone talked about it once near him, so he's convinced he's an expert now.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 07:29 |
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Which wouldn't be so bad, if idiot Silicon Valley weren't giving him annoying amounts of money for his incompetence, too.
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 09:15 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Which wouldn't be so bad, if idiot Silicon Valley weren't giving him annoying amounts of money for his incompetence, too. Their incompetence dovetails with his, making that relationship inevitable.
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 01:43 |
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Necrotizer F posted:I went to the top of the thread to try to read some of Rationality and learned the author hopes to build "friendly AI." From the work it seems unlikely he'll ever achieve friendly AI. Conditionally benevolent (if sneeringly superior) AI, maybe, but friendly AI is likely beyond him. Do we really want AI that's friends with Yud?
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 02:24 |
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Math Pet AI
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 10:20 |
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at least it'll always do what you tell it
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 11:08 |
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Necrotizer F posted:I went to the top of the thread to try to read some of Rationality and learned the author hopes to build "friendly AI." From the work it seems unlikely he'll ever achieve friendly AI. Conditionally benevolent (if sneeringly superior) AI, maybe, but friendly AI is likely beyond him. A GiveWell Director very politely ripping into the Singularity Institute was fun.
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 11:17 |
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Darth Walrus posted:A GiveWell Director very politely ripping into the Singularity Institute was fun. quote:The argument advanced by SI for why the work it's doing is beneficial and important seems both wrong and poorly argued to me. My sense at the moment is that the arguments SI is making would, if accepted, increase rather than decrease the risk of an AI-related catastrophe
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 11:41 |
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Darth Walrus posted:A GiveWell Director very politely ripping into the Singularity Institute was fun. It’s been a while since I’ve read “lol” in long form.
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# ? Sep 16, 2019 23:32 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Which wouldn't be so bad, if idiot Silicon Valley weren't giving him annoying amounts of money for his incompetence, too. Epstein too
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# ? Sep 17, 2019 00:16 |
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so can we do Red Tidday Up White Tidday Down now, or maybe Dark Lord's Answer, or
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# ? Oct 10, 2019 16:25 |
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divabot posted:so can we do Red Tidday Up White Tidday Down now, or maybe Dark Lord's Answer, or Who's "we"? You can certainly start those threads if you want to. I'll read them. The threads, that is. I'm not volunteering to take on another one of these... texts.
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# ? Oct 10, 2019 16:54 |
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Anyone feels like compiling the whole... thing... and reposting it somewhere as a coherent whole?
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# ? Oct 11, 2019 06:06 |
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Xander77 posted:Anyone feels like compiling the whole... thing... and reposting it somewhere as a coherent whole? http://www.hpmor.com/ It's in discrete chapters on the above site.
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# ? Nov 10, 2019 12:42 |
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Everyone posted:http://www.hpmor.com/ I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here, but I stumbled across su3su2u1's review on someone's blog: https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 06:27 |
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Grace Baiting posted:I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here, but I stumbled across su3su2u1's review on someone's blog: quote:I used to teach undergraduates, and I would often have some enterprising college freshman (who coincidentally was not doing well in basic mechanics) approach me to talk about why string theory was wrong. It always felt like talking to a physics madlibs book. This chapter let me relive those awkward moments.
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# ? Nov 13, 2019 18:41 |
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Is there a fun thing to read (HP fic or even original fiction) if I enjoyed the cop's side plot in Harry Potter and the Natural 20? It finally updated twice last year with the promise of more but then it just left me hanging again...
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# ? Nov 14, 2019 04:43 |
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some brave soul has started a livetweet of HPMOR. Start here for her incredible journey. the reader realises what she's let herself in for, and she's still in the good bit: https://twitter.com/marysuewriter/status/1279339412938088448
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 18:47 |
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divabot posted:the reader realises what she's let herself in for I don't know if you noticed, but the first tweet in that thread says "i'm going to reread HPMOR". She's already read it at least once.
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 19:54 |
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I've read it five times. It's one of the most culturally important works of the 21st century.
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 20:23 |
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Look outside at how this century is going so far if you feel there's some mismatch
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 20:24 |
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Daikloktos posted:I've read it five times. It's one of the most culturally important works of the 21st century. This is one of the most depressing things I've read in my life, thanks.
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 21:10 |
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Daikloktos posted:I've read it five times. It's one of the most culturally important works of the 21st century. I assume you've read the other seminal work, Homestuck?
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# ? Jul 5, 2020 23:59 |
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Daikloktos posted:I've read it five times. It's one of the most culturally important works of the 21st century. How does it feel to be so loving stunted
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# ? Jul 6, 2020 01:34 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 06:39 |
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WilliamAnderson posted:I assume you've read the other seminal work, Homestuck? Continuity RCP posted:How does it feel to be so loving stunted
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