Open Thread: July 2010, Part 2

Alicorn

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

July Part 1

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

July Part 1

Something really crazy is going on here.

You people have fabricated a fantastic argument for all kinds of wrongdoing and idiot decisions, "it could increase the chance of an AI going wrong...".

"I deleted my comment because it was maybe going to increase the chance of an AI going wrong..."

"Hey, I had to punch that guy in the face, he was going to increase the chance of an AI going wrong by uttering something stupid..."

"Sorry, I had to exterminate those people because they were going to increase the chance of an AI going wrong."

I'm beginning to wonder if not unfriendly AI but rather EY and this movement might be the bigger risk.

Why would I care about some feverish dream of a galactic civilization if we have to turn into our own oppressor and that of others? Screw you. That’s not what I want. Either I win like this, or I don’t care to win at all. What’s winning worth, what’s left of a victory, if you have to relinquish all that you value? That’s not winning, it’s worse than losing, it means to surrender to mere possibilities, preemptively.

Maybe you should read the comments in question before you make this sort of post?

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Before someone accuses me of it, I want to issue the point of people suffering psychological malaise by related information. Is active denial of information an appropriate handling of serious personal problems? If there are people who suffer from mental illness due to mere thought-experiments, I'm sorry but I think along the lines of the proponents that support the deletion of information for reasons of increasing the chance of an AI going wrong. Namely, as you abandon freedom of expression to an extent, I'm advocating to draw the line between the balance of freedom of information and protection of individual well-being at this point. That is not to say that, for example, I'd go all the way and advocate the depiction of cruelty to children. A delicate issue indeed, but what one has to keep care of is not to slide into extremism that causes a relinquishment of values it is meant to serve and protect.

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