What’s the wisest way for Canada to negotiate with Trump-era tariffs and why? I’d like to hear from folks with a background in economics, game theory, or negotiation strategy.
> I want to retain the ability to update my values over time, but I don’t want those updates to be the result of manipulative optimization by a superintelligence. Instead, the superintelligence should supply me with accurate empirical data and valid inferences, while leaving the choice of normative assumptions—and thus...
In LessWrong contributor Scott Alexander's essay, Espistemic Learned Helplessness, he wrote, > Even the smartest people I know have a commendable tendency not to take certain ideas seriously. Bostrom’s simulation argument, the anthropic doomsday argument, Pascal’s Mugging – I’ve never heard anyone give a coherent argument against any of these,...