Say you have just realized something that seems, in hindsight, pretty obvious - but that you were totally unaware of before now. You scratch your head, update your model of the world, and move on. Hold on. Update your model of your model. Why were you not aware of it...
This is a thought exercise I came up with on IRC to help with the iffiness of "freezing yourself for a thousand years" with regards to continuity of self. Let's say we live in a post-singularity world as uploads and are pretty bored and always up for terrible entertainment (our...
Say you have just realized something that seems, in hindsight, pretty obvious - but that you were totally unaware of before now. You scratch your head, update your model of the world, and move on.
Hold on. Update your model of your model. Why were you not aware of it before? If this insight, in retrospect, seems so basic, then why did you not realize it earlier? And how many other people do you think missed it as well?
There is a common situation in user interface development, where you've written a marvellous, clear, easy to use piece of software - after all, you have no problems with it at all! You've stuck to... (read 366 more words →)
This is a thought exercise I came up with on IRC to help with the iffiness of "freezing yourself for a thousand years" with regards to continuity of self.
Let's say we live in a post-singularity world as uploads and are pretty bored and always up for terrible entertainment (our god is FAI but has a scary sense of humor ..). So some crazy person creates a very peculiar black cube in our shared reality. You walk into it, a fork of you is created and you duke it out via russian roulette. The winner walks out the other side.
Before entering, should you accurately anticipate dying with 50% probability?
I argued that you should... (read 157 more words →)
I'm very good friends with someone who is persistently critical and it has imo largely improved my mental health, fwiw, by forcing me to construct a functioning and well-maintained ego which I didn't really have before.
I don't understand it but it does make me feel happy.
Sounds like you should create PokemonBench.
Haven't heard back yet...
edit: Heard back!
I think this only works if your standards for posts are in sync with those of the outside world. Otherwise, you're operating under incompatible status models and cannot sustain your community standards against outside pressure; you will always be outcompeted by the outside world (who can pretty much always offer more status than you can simply by volume) unless you can maintain the worth of your respect, and you cannot do that by copying outside appraisal.
I think in my whole life I have once seen a person come back because another person left, and they didn't stay long anyway. Broadly speaking I don't think this ever works.
I think what is actually happening is "yes, all the benchmarks are inadequate." In humans, those benchmarks correlate to a particular kind of ability we may call 'able to navigate society and to, in some field, improve it.' Top of the line AIs still routinely deletes people's home dirs and cannot run a profitable business even if extremely handheld. AIs have only really started this year to convincingly contribute to software projects outside of toys. There are still many software projects that could never be created by even a team of AIs all running in pro mode at 100x the cost of living of a human. Benchmarks are fundamentally an attempt to... (read more)
I think he just objected to the phrasing. I do think "set up a system where people can be banned by others whom Said does not instruct on who to ban" is a stretch for "Said bans people from DSL."
I have generally found Said to mean the things he says quite literally and to expect others to do so as well. It's painful to read a conversation where one person keeps assigning subtext to another who quite clearly never intended to put it there.
Sidechannel note: Said wishes it to be known that he neither bans people from DSL nor customarily has the right to, the task being delegated to moderators rather than the sysop. ( https://share.obormot.net/textfiles/MINHjLX7 )
I think you failed to establish that the long, well-written and highly-upvoted critiques lived in the larger LW archipelago, so there's a hole in your existence proof. On that basis, I would surmise that on priors Said assumed you were referring to comments or on-site posts.