I love this album, big thank you. I liked the ordering of songs in the full album youtube video - specifically the way it started with the folk album and later went through the dance album. One minor thing I found confusing is the ordering of songs in the albums on spotify, youtube music, etc. They seem to have a different ordering, and jump between the folk songs and the dance songs. Is this intentional? Do you think the ordering of songs on these various platforms could be updated to match the full album youtube video?
Unlike a maximiser, that will attempt to squeeze the universe to every drop of utility that it can, a satisficer will be content when it reaches a certain level expected utility (a satisficer that is content with a certain level of utility is simply a maximiser with a bounded utility function).
Does it make sense to to claim that a satisficer will be content when it reaches a certain level of expected utility though? Some satisficers may work that way, but they don't all need to work that way. Expected utility is somewhat arbitrary.
Instead, you could have a satisficer which tries to maximize the probability that the utility is above a certain value. This leads to different dynamics than maximizing expected utility. What do you think?
Related post on utility functions here: https://colekillian.com/posts/sbf-and-pascals-mugging/
Is there a reason for not link posting all overcoming bias posts to lesswrong?
Could you elaborate on the reasoning behind the high bar for alignment forum membership?
I looked briefly into Ziz. My conclusion is that she had some interesting ideas I hadn't heard before, and some completely ridiculous ideas. I couldn't find her definition of "good" or "bad" or the idea of tiling the future lightcone with copies of herself.
Thanks for reminding me about that scene from the Matrix. Gave it a look on YouTube. Awesome movie.
I'm wondering, how do you look at the question of what we want to tile the future lightcone with?
Yea I like the way you describe it.
I'll check out his writings on the history of Buddhism and meditation, thanks.
I agree it can be seen as a destructive meme. At the same time, I wonder why it has spread so little. Maybe because it doesn't have a very evangelical property. People who become infected with it might not have much of a desire to pass it on to others.
Hey thanks for the link Richard that was an interesting read. There definitely seems to be some similarities.
I was actually thinking about what we want to tile the future lightcone with the other day. This was the progression I saw:
Utilitarianism V has some similarities to tiling the future lightcone with copies of yourself which can then execute based on their updated preferences in the future.
But "yourself" is really just a collection of memes. It will be the memes that are propagating themselves like a virus. There's no real coherent persistent definition of "yourself".
What do you want to tile the future lightcone with?
I took a look at meaningness a few months ago but couldn't really get into it. It felt a bit too far from rationality and very hand wavy.
Did you find Meaningness valuable? I may take another look
Interesting. Do you have any updates on how your friend is doing since then?