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Visual Mental Imagery Training
Incorrect12y00

My visualization ability improves the closer I am to sleep, being near perfect during a lucid dream.

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Falsifiable and non-Falsifiable Ideas
Incorrect12y-20

You can generally throw unfalsifiable beliefs into your utility function but you might consider this intellectually dishonest.

As a quick analogy, a solipsist can still care about other people.

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A Series of Increasingly Perverse and Destructive Games
Incorrect12y00

I escape by writing a program that simulates 3^^3 copies of myself escaping and living happily ever after (generating myself by running Solomonoff Induction on a large amount of text I type directly into the source code).

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Isolated AI with no chat whatsoever
Incorrect12y50

You might be able to contain it with a homomorphic encryption scheme

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I attempted the AI Box Experiment (and lost)
Incorrect12y140

I'm guessing Eliezer would lose most of his advantages against a demographic like that.

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I attempted the AI Box Experiment (and lost)
Incorrect12y30

Oh god, remind me to never play the part of the gatekeeper… This is terrifying.

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Some scary life extension dilemmas
Incorrect13y-10

The lifespan dilemma applies to all unbounded utility functions combined with expected value maximization, it does not require simple utilitarianism.

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New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people
Incorrect13y100

Would your post on eating babies count, or is it too nonspecific?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ww/undiscriminating_skepticism/1scb?context=1

(I completely agree with the policy, I'm just curious)

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Causal Universes
Incorrect13y00

There are people who claim to be less confused about this than I am

Solipsists should be able to dissolve the whole thing easily.

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Gap in understanding of Logical Pinpointing
Incorrect13y00

Thanks, can you recommend a textbook for this stuff? I've mostly been learning off Wikipedia.

I can't find a textbook on logic in the lesswrong textbook list.

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