I think the prior for aliens having visited Earth should be lower, since it a priori it seems unlikely to me that aliens would interact with Earth but not to an extent which makes it clear to us that they have. My intuition is that its probably rare to get to other planets with sapient life before building a superintelligence (which would almost certainly be obvious to us if it did arrive) and even if you do manage to go to other planets with sapient life, I don't think aliens would not try to contract us if they're anything like humans.

Why not just use the median?

Yeah I think I got a bit confused with the wording. My point is that a Harberger tax is a tax on the opportunity cost of you holding the thing being taxed, so if you are genuinely the single person who benefits most from holding the thing being taxed, then no one else would want to buy it from you.

Good thing you're only incentivized to sell at market price then, not how much value you'd assign personally!

One of question I have about "the Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" is "walk away to where?" I'd argue most societies cause more misery for less benefit. 

I think I my empathy tends to be kinder because I used to be like nail-head.

Confused about the disagreements. Is it because of the AI output or just the general idea of an AI risk chatbot?

Here's a riddle: A woman falls in love with a man at her mother's funeral, but forgets to get contact info from him and can't get it from any of her acquaintances. How could she find him again? The answer is to kill her father in hopes that the man would come to the funeral.

It reminds me of [security mindset](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_mi_1.html), in which thinking like an attacker exposes leaky abstractions and unfounded assumptions, something that is also characteristic of being agentic and "just doing things."

In fact, Claude 3 Opus is still available.

Is Judaism not also based around disputation of texts?