Do you have similar concerns about humanoid robotics, then?

At least half of that reluctance is due to concerns about how nanotech will affect the risks associated with AI. Having powerful nanotech around when AI becomes more competent than humans will make it somewhat easier for AIs to take control of the world.

Doesn't progress in nanotech now empower humans far more than it empowers ASI, which was already going to figure it out without us?

Broadly, any increase in human industrial capacity pre-ASI hardens the world against ASI and brings us closer to having a bargaining position when it arrives. EG, once we have the capacity to put cheap genomic pathogen screeners everywhere → harder for it to infect us with anything novel without getting caught.

Indicating them as a suspect when the leak is discovered.

Generally the set of people who actually read posts worthy of being marked is in a sense small, people know each other. If you had a process for distributing the work, it would be possible to figure out who's probably doing it.

It would take a lot of energy, but it's energy that probably should be cultivated anyway, the work of knowing each other and staying aligned.

You can't see the post body without declaring intent to read.

I don't think the part that talks can be called the shadow. If you mean you think I lack introspective access to the intuition driving those words, come out and say it, and then we'll see if that's true. If you mean that this mask is extroardinarily shadowish in vibe for confessing to things that masks usually flee, yes, probably, I'm fairly sure that's a necessity for alignment.

Intended for use in vacuum. I guess if it's more of a cylinder than a ring this wouldn't always be faster than an elevator system though.

I guess since it sounds like they're going to be about a km long and 20 stories deep there'll be enough room for a nice running track with minimal upspin/downspin sections.

Relatedly, iirc, this effect would be more noticeable in smaller spinners than in larger ones? Which is one reason people might disprefer smaller ones. Would it be a significant difference? I'm not sure, but if so, jogging would be a bit difficult, either it would quickly become too easy (and then dangerous, once the levitation kicks in) when you're running down-spin, or it would become exhausting when you're running up-spin.

A space where people can't (or wont) jog isn't ideal for human health.

issue: material transport

You can become weightless in a ring station by running really fast against the spin of the ring.

More practically, by climbing down and out into a despinner on the side of the ring. After being "launched" from the despinner, you would find yourself hovering stationary next to the ring. The torque exerted on the ring by the despinner will be recovered when you enter a respinner on whichever part of the ring you want to reenter.

In my disambiguations of the really mysterious aspect of consciousness (indexical prior), I haven't found any support for a concept of continuity. (you could say that continuity over time is likely given that causal entanglement seems to have something to do with the domain of the indexical prior, but I'm not sure we really have a reason to think we can ever observe anything about the indexical prior)

It's just part of the human survival drive, it has very little to do with the metaphysics of consciousness. To understand the extent to which humans really care about it, you need to know human desires in a direct and holistic way that we don't really practice here. Human desire is a big messy state machine that changes shape as a person grows. Some of the changes that the desires permit and encourage include situationally appropriate gradual reductions in complexity.

A continuity minder doesn't need to define their self in terms of any particular quality, they define themselves as continuity with a history of small alterations. They are completely unbothered by the paradox of the ship of theseus.

It's rare that I meet a continuity minder and cataclysmic identity change accepter who is also a patternist. But they do exist.

But I've met plenty of people who do not fear cataclysmic change. I sometimes wonder if we're all that way, really. Most of us just never have the opportunity to gradually transition into a hedonium blob, so I think we don't really know whether we'd do it or not. The road to the blob nature may turn out to be paved with acceptable changes.