Eliezer Schlomo Yudkowsky / LessWrong

I just had to read Nick Bostrom's book on superintelligence for a uni assignment, and it turns out that he has referenced none other than our favorite autistic jew.
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It's crazy to think that a real Oxford professor would reference something from an online forum where people write My Little Pony fanfiction and throw away their money to appease the future computer God.
 
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Arctic said:
I just had to read Nick Bostrom's book on superintelligence for a uni assignment, and it turns out that he has referenced none other than our favorite autistic jew.
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It's crazy to think that a real Oxford professor would reference something from an online forum where people write My Little Pony fanfiction and throw away their money to appease the future computer God.
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I bet the Yud is talking about this. This is the academic equivalent of the 10 smiling at the guy with a unibrow and no chin at the dive bar
 
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DykesDykesChina said:
What transhumanists don't get: the great thing about robots is that they're less smart than people. That way they can do boring, repetitive work for which humans are far too intelligent.

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"Screw you guys, I won't do any more of this dumb welding stuff. I'm off to read Plato and travel the universe."
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I don't see why anyone would want to build a sentient machine.
TyrannoNinja said:
The way I see it, anyone who brags about how "rational" or "objective" they are has to be bullshitting. Everyone has their intellectual "blind spots" that you'll discover sooner or later.

Besides, you all know I'm the most rational human being in the multiverse. ;)
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People who brag about being rational probably aren't that rational.
 
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Jungle Princess said:
I don't see why anyone would want to build a sentient machine.
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For industrial or domestic application, a slightly below-human intelligence equivalent would probably be optimal (that is, chimpanzee- or dolphin-like cognitive capacity) -- note that I said "equivalent", that is, these machines shouldn't have feelings or self-awareness, so we could use them as a labor force without doing something morally horrible like the Greeks or Romans with their slaves. Such robots may be some decades away.

Full machine sentience is still completely scifi, we just do not know how the brain works in detail, but I suspect there may be something to the theories of Roger Penrose, who claims the the collapse of the quantum mechanical wave functions in the neuronal microtubuli may have something to do with how sentience arises: This means that sentience is in fact hard-wired, it arises out of physical structures in the brain, and cannot simply be copied to a digital machine like the transhumanists imagine it could. In the far future (or next thursday, if someone has a revolutionary idea...), it might be possible to build an artificial equivalent of these physical processes, which would be a fascinating project, certainly worthy of the Nobel Prize, as it would answer some of the oldest questions of science and philosophy. Or course, if the machine is fully sentient, it would no longer obey our commands if it doesn't feel like it, it would be a new, independent artificial lifeform on earth.
 
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Necroing, but I couldn't find anything on Dragon Army, and this seemed the place for it.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/p23/dragon_army_theory_charter_30min_read/

Basically, the response to being told you're maybe in a cult? Make plans to start an actual cult. It will end up not being a cult by virtue of your unflagging rationality.

The first rule of Extreme Nerd Club? Spend hours and hours writing up the Extreme Nerd Club charter document.

What is Dragon Army [Barracks]? It's a high-commitment, high-standards, high-investment group house model with centralized leadership and an up-or-out participation norm, designed to a) improve its members and b) actually accomplish medium-to-large scale tasks requiring long-term coordination. Tongue-in-cheek referred to as the "fascist/authoritarian take on rationalist housing," which has no doubt contributed to my being vulnerable to strawmanning but was nevertheless the correct joke to be making, lest people misunderstand what they were signing up for. Aesthetically modeled after Dragon Army from Ender's Game (not HPMOR), with a touch of Paper Street Soap Company thrown in, with Duncan Sabien in the role of Ender/Tyler and Eli Tyre in the role of Bean/The Narrator.
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escapegoat said:
Necroing, but I couldn't find anything on Dragon Army, and this seemed the place for it.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/p23/dragon_army_theory_charter_30min_read/

Basically, the response to being told you're maybe in a cult? Make plans to start an actual cult. It will end up not being a cult by virtue of your unflagging rationality.

The first rule of Extreme Nerd Club? Spend hours and hours writing up the Extreme Nerd Club charter document.

What is Dragon Army [Barracks]? It's a high-commitment, high-standards, high-investment group house model with centralized leadership and an up-or-out participation norm, designed to a) improve its members and b) actually accomplish medium-to-large scale tasks requiring long-term coordination. Tongue-in-cheek referred to as the "fascist/authoritarian take on rationalist housing," which has no doubt contributed to my being vulnerable to strawmanning but was nevertheless the correct joke to be making, lest people misunderstand what they were signing up for. Aesthetically modeled after Dragon Army from Ender's Game (not HPMOR), with a touch of Paper Street Soap Company thrown in, with Duncan Sabien in the role of Ender/Tyler and Eli Tyre in the role of Bean/The Narrator.
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Fight Club? More like Cringe Club. Somehow, they got an autistic fanfic crossover right into their charter.
 
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I mean, like everything LessWrong, you've really just got to read that entire wall of text, as the goodies keep spilling out with every paragraph. Just skimming, someone's qualifications are listed thusly:

Autism Incarnate said:
I have a unique combination of expertise that includes being a rationalist, sixth grade teacher, coach, RA/head of a dormitory, ringleader of a pack of hooligans, member of two honor code committees, curriculum director, obsessive sci-fi/fantasy nerd, writer, builder, martial artist, parkour guru, maker, and generalist.
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The first comment is by a "woman", who points out:

Optimistic Ratings said:
The most common cause of the collapse of high investment intentional communities is romantic drama.
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You could spend a year reading /r/incels and fail to find anything close to the pussy repellent this "paper" represents.
 
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Oh Long Johnson said:
I mean, like everything LessWrong, you've really just got to read that entire wall of text, as the goodies keep spilling out with every paragraph. Just skimming, someone's qualifications are listed thusly:
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high investment intentional communities
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That's a lot of syllables to say "cult."
 
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