There is no evidence requirement for the irrationality accusation which is “downvoting” on Less Wrong, sadly. This requirement would be easy to program. The accuser would click the “down” arrow, and a reasonably finite list of only the most common, and thus only the most easily avoidable fallacies would appear,...
[Intro Note: (1) this "post" is, technically, a "question", for which there's a separate category on LW. I debated posting it as a "question", but it also involves considerable argumentation for my own views. Ideally there'd be some in-between "question/post" category, but I opted for "post"? I understand if a...
“…genetic engineering by itself could result in a future of incredible prosperity with far less suffering than exists in the world today.” – GeneSmith, December 2023 “Human intelligence augmentation needs to be in the mix. In particular, you have to augment people at least to the point where they automatically...
(Wherein somebody—I guess it has to be me? Of all people?—disagrees fundamentally with Yudkowsky for reasons that are actually not, by all appearances, things he’s already considered deeply and rigorously for thirty years at least and is just being heroically patient to not be driven into a rage by, Yudkowsky...