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Unbounded agentic selfishness isn't possible unless you can unboundedly index on and retrocausally compress "self". Otherwise future "you" is just this animal walking around, and how do you specify them in particular for good things to happen to? In practice, evil people do this by cancer like "make good things...

I want to gauge opinions. Do you think TDT/FDT imply magic is real? Do you think magic is real? Feel free to define magic, but I'd like to leave it at that simple pretheoretic pointer in order not to bias the results.

I found an interesting article by Eliezer on arbital: https://arbital.com/p/hyperexistential_separation/ > One seemingly obvious patch to avoid disutility maximization might be to give the AGI a utility function U=V+W where W says that the absolute worst possible thing that can happen is for a piece of paper to have written...

Some sites are free due to the coronavirus and we should scrape them. Please list any temporarily-free websites you know of, such as https://www.uptodate.com/ To download sites I recommend https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site Consider whether you want to use --no-offsite-links. Otherwise it will pull every linked page and its resources (and sometimes even...

I've scraped http://arbital.com as the site is unusably slow and hard to search for me. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b7dKhOzfMpFwngAeI8efeOzv147Lv_mx https://mega.nz/#!SUQg1YxS!G7bmpNipcl1Ztugvr6l6sUJUu1D0gDg1-jA6oXLNEWg https://emma-borhanian.github.io/arbital-scrape/ The scrape is locally browsable and plain HTML save for MathJax and a few interactive demos. Source code included (with git history). (previously Arbital Scrape) Updates: Included source code, MathJax and link...

Update: Arbital Scrape V2 I've scraped http://arbital.com as the site is unusably slow and hard to search for me. The scrape is locally browsable and plain HTML save for MathJax. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b7dKhOzfMpFwngAeI8efeOzv147Lv_mx https://emma-borhanian.github.io/arbital-scrape/ If there's interest let me know as I may tidy up and open source my code. edit: working...