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> I. . . [was trying] to highlight > the general tendency of LessWrong to infer highly specific, > conjunctive, non-evidence-backed conclusions from other > purely inference based speculations. They do like their chains of deductive logic, don't they? The...
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> > It's OK, the Basilisk will resurrect you for eternal torment... > > That runs into the continuity of self argument. > > Is that resurrectee me? Or is it someone else who thinks they were me? The Extropians...
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> . . .counting on the Streisand Effect to spread it. . . Or in this case, the Mecha-Streisand effect. ;->...
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> He's a COMPLETE STRATEGIC ALTRUIST, and don't you forget it! Just don't piss him off! Re: Volitional Morality and Action Judgement From: Eliezer Yudkowsky Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 11:22:53 MDT http://acceleratingfuture.com/sl4/archive/0406/8977.html ------------ In 2003 I tried to...
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> Eliezer has a missionary zeal in the Singularity that could > go down the paths of the Inquisition or Communism, but. . . > his ethical sense seems pretty strong. And comparing him to > power-hungry autocrats like Stalin...
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> > There are certainly many individuals who believe in > > "generally improving quality of life via technological/biological > > enhancement" -- everyone who works in the fields of prosthetics, > > neural interface and human genetics falls into...
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> "The parallels between singularitarians and religion are remarkable." > > I'll go even further and postulate that true, pure atheism is > not physically possible for the human brain to achieve. Nonsense. What is true, however, is that if...
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> On a somewhat related note since when did > transhumanists/singularitarians adopt the idea > that a superintelligence can be designed by > humans for our benefit...? The idea was widely adopted (among the on-line transhumanists and singularitarians) more than...

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thevadiv commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
I stand corrected about Copenhagen, but proving reality was local would still screw up transactional, so hopefully my point is understood. ;) Every observable outcome would be identical, unless of course someone screwed up their math and its just garbage. Either I'm confused, or you missed something I said. My point was that the interpretations are indeed mathematically identical, so you can't test them. (The ones that aren't mathematically identical are usually rapidly disproven.) However, they _do_ make statements about reality, not about quantum outcomes, but about the actual composition of reality, and those statements can, in theory, be disproved...
lex.aver commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
Wait, why should I care if I'm simulated after I die?...
Bellinghman commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
Because the simulation is so perfect, so exact, that it actually is you. Yeah, I know, this involves measuring you here and now at atomic accuracy, to a level that not only breaks the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle but that drives a coach and horses over the fragments and then gathers the splinters up and uses them as tinder for building a bonfire. But ignoring those petty practicalities, it's going to happen because, well, because someone could imagine it happening and therefore it must be inevitable....
paws4thot commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
I'd say that this imagining tells us more about the imaginer's lack of understanding of Quantum Mechanics than about how much we should or shouldn't care about it happening....
dmytryl commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
Ahh, we are essentially in agreement then. I don't see though how locality would affect any exact interpretation in so much as locality can at all be inferred (sounds like an attempt to prove absence). If there was a non local interaction, it would knock the support from under everything that's motivated by locality, though. The way I see it, any new physics necessitates different laws of physics from what we know, with different set of interpretations, some of which can resemble current interpretations of QM; and some of current interpretations of QM may end up having no interpretations of...

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