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Re: Only Physics Computes

RobinHanson — Wed, 08 Feb 2023 14:32:14 -0000

I'm presuming the "hard problem" sort of consciousness, that has NO effects at all on behavior.

Re: Only Physics Computes

RobinHanson — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 23:24:04 -0000

If so, then the universe would be allowing all feelings that any brain chooses to allow.

Re: Only Physics Computes

RobinHanson — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:58:36 -0000

I don't have any problem with brains computing a bunch of possible feelings, most of which are just kept in reserve, with just a few chosen to be actually felt. But if the brain chooses it, how does the universe decide if to allow that?

Re: Why Is Everyone So Boring?

RobinHanson — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 20:48:06 -0000

I mean to say "most everyone else who doesn't pick boring picks bandit". I've edited the post.

Re: Explain The Sacred

RobinHanson — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:38:17 -0000

"Most of your 45 correlates have something to do with not applying individual reason to the "sacred" subject."

There is a LOT more detail to be explained than that.

Re: Explain The Sacred

RobinHanson — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:52:25 -0000

And how specifically does that explain these 45 correlates?

Re: Prediction Market Quotes

RobinHanson — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:50:37 -0000

Nope.

Re: Why Not Limit City Citizenship?

RobinHanson — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:23:24 -0000

So then why does the state allow ANY other units of social organization? Such as firms and clubs who can decide who are their members?

Re: Why Not Limit City Citizenship?

RobinHanson — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:22:23 -0000

So why doesn't the state feel challenged when firms or clubs decide who can join them?

Re: Win-Win Babies As Infrastructure

RobinHanson — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 12:44:36 -0000

Why would any mother be illegitimate?

Re: Are Elites Displacing Experts?

RobinHanson — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 03:35:40 -0000

Thanks for mentioning the rationality to sentiment word trend; I mentioned it in an added to the post.

Re: Are Elites Displacing Experts?

RobinHanson — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 03:30:11 -0000

Yes, it was a typo; fixed.

Re: Status App Concept

RobinHanson — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 11:05:52 -0000

But the app could give elites much more say over who is elite, and satisfy that elite desire to say in control of who is elite. And elites might see the app as doing this all more accurately, with less noise than in their usual informal processes.

Re: HFT as Crazy Huge Market Failure

RobinHanson — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 11:07:06 -0000

No, I don't need to push the price in order to profit from my private info. But I do have to hold my new assets for the info duration period.

Re: HFT as Crazy Huge Market Failure

RobinHanson — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 08:39:07 -0000

I don't see how the opportunity cost of the capital used to support a trade depends at all on the number of other trades in the market.

Re: I See Stylists Everywhere

RobinHanson — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:23:22 -0000

Few writers embrace the label "popularizer".

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:11:00 -0000

See http://grabbyaliens.com

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:10:33 -0000

We may. But that possibility doesn't by itself justify crazy risk attempts to make an AI god.

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:11:01 -0000

We have not fondly embraced wannabe gods who seek to conquer us, claiming that they would afterward rule benevolently.

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 16:08:55 -0000

But he did NOT show that there would be such a race to the bottom. He merely claimed such.

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:51:37 -0000

The Moloch post is way too long to attempt to rebut it paragraph by paragraph.

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:50:12 -0000

But one of our traditions is to not try to create gods to rule over us. That seems more traditional than trying to create a god to better enforce tradition.

Re: Earth: A Status Report

RobinHanson — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:48:46 -0000

Unless there are strong reasons to expect competition to induce the worse possible outcomes, I don't see why we should take crazy risky chances to avoid it.

Re: More Data On The Sacred

RobinHanson — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:55:57 -0000

But they report others in the world as having just a low reverential attitude toward medicine.

Re: More Data On The Sacred

RobinHanson — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:10:53 -0000

I'm pretty open to working with many people; they just need to indicate their interest.