Recursive_Enlightenment
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Recursive_Enlightenment
11mo ago
"I would say that almost without exception, anyone who knows anything about AI risk and consciousness realises there's very little connecting the two." One possible connection is that if AIs exterminate us and don't have consciousness the future has zero value, but if they do have consciousness, well something was going to eventually replace us and perhaps we can be proud of our AI children.
Recursive_Enlightenment
10mo ago
I friend of mine knows lots of high ranking people in the military. He says many of them take UFOs seriously.
Recursive_Enlightenment
10mo ago
Objects being observed/recorded accelerating in manners way beyond the technical capacity of anything the US military knows about. They are spooked.
Recursive_Enlightenment
10mo ago
Do you think Germans would have elected for themselves someone as grotesquely corrupt and dim as Zuma ?
They did elect a guy who wanted to start a war of choice with the Soviet Union.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
Tell her you want to move to a leftist state like Massachusetts or California that has similar laws to Europe. Tell her that America is so big thinking all American states are the same would be like an American thinking there is no real difference between living in Romania or England or an American being fearful of living in Spain because of the policies of the Hungarian government.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
His girlfriend's dream home is in a college town.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
If they can deal with the weather there.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
A fun trick when you get very annoyed with the customer service of some business. Say "I'm a Wikipedia Editor and I'm currently looking at your company's Wikipedia page and right now I intend to edit it to reflect your poor customer service." Weird how the Internet can empower a single person willing to make certain types of anonymous complaints.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
Economies of scale (average costs fall as output increases) means that the US has strong military reasons for insisting that nations which it defends buy US military equipment.
Recursive_Enlightenment
9mo ago
I look forward to a future where everyone wears augmented reality glasses and can make the bench appear to them however they want.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
See Gwern on Death Note and Anonymity. https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
If notable respectable figures continue associating with Hanania, it might signify a shift in cancel culture. These figures might argue that Hanania's genuine apology should suffice. Currently, individuals who have made racist remarks are offered little redemption even compared to those convicted of multiple violent crimes. With ever-changing definitions of racism, many important people could benefit from a system that forgives sincere apologies, like Hanania's. Moreover, associating with someone like Hanania, who undeniably made racially charged comments, could shield those who've made milder missteps in the past.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Yes, like the flaw with Star Trek's Klingons, that if they were as depicted, they would never have developed the technology they needed to establish their empire.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
"Not everyone can" than it is a different game.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Whether people are rational or read the question correctly is very different from whether they can pick red. I agree that some people would pick blue, but if you are telling me that some people can't pick red, you have changed the game.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
If Trump loses the primary, he is really going to want a Republican who will pardon him to be the next president, although the pardon can only be for federal crimes.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Silly religious people don't realize that hell only exists for those who make bad acausal trades with future AI Gods.
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Related question: Does the military treat its troops better if you have universal conscription or if you force the military to compete in labor markets?
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Fantastic content! People who enjoy might also like the Unauthorized History of the Pacific War Podcast. https://youtube.com/@UnauthorizedHistoryPacificWar
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Imagine someone was raised in a country where the Holocaust is officially denied, and then goes to college in a country such as Finland or Germany in which denying the Holocaust is a crime. This student is genuinely uncertain if the Holocaust occurred, and starts conversations about the Holocaust with his classmates and presents arguments he was given as a child about why the Holocaust was faked by powerful interests. He is sternly told that it is a criminal offense to bring up such arguments. If he is a good Bayesian, how should this criminality cause him to update? (Of course, I don't think the Holocaust was faked.)
Recursive_Enlightenment
8mo ago
Concerning C:
"The same complainant took issue with this statement of Peterson’s: “Well, it’s just poor children and the world has too many people on it anyways.” Rogan had replied, “You’re being facetious.”
In his communications to the college, Peterson referred to this comment. “I respectfully submit that anyone truly listening to that podcast and not merely focusing for a moment on that statement out of context (and who has bothered to familiarize themselves at all with anything else I have ever said before leveling such an accusation) would note instantly that I do not for a second believe and never have that ‘it’s just poor children’ or ‘that the world has too many people on it.’
“The comment was aimed ironically exactly at those who make such claims and I am frankly rather amazed that the ICRC [the college’s Inquiries, Complaints, and Reports Committee] would make such an error in accusing me of propagating those views.”"
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
From the Wikipedia page on the proposal: "Under the endorsed design principles of the Referendum Working Group, the membership of the Voice would be selected by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the country, with an enforced gender balance at the national level"
I'm guessing that "gender balance" is a form of cultural imperialism and not a big part of how Australian aboriginals governed themselves before whites arrived.
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
Imagine all the staff people who didn't realize "fought against Stalin in WW II" probably meant was a Nazi (Finns excluded, of course).
Recursive_Enlightenment
7mo ago
But wasn't the fight between Poland and the Soviet Union over within about 2 weeks?
A central lesson of the Holocaust is: "When someone says they want to kill you, believe them." --- Elie Wiesel
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