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It sounds like Stapledon's scenario still has grown-up humans able to work on some sort of cutting edge stuff for their civilization. This is very different from the Culture, where humans are basically stuck as housecats and any new stuff is complex enough that only the Minds can tackle it.
If you had a correct causal model of someone having a red experience and saying so, your model would include an actual red experience, and some reflective awareness of it, along with whatever other entities and causal relations are involved in producing the final act of speech.
The model would quite likely amount to a successful brain emulation which would have a conscious experience like a biological human does when run. Though you get into some conceptual hairiness with whether it's a case that the model includes the experience qualia, or the execution of the model does. Which would be pretty interesting if it was something that could run on a classical computer.
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The possibility of mastering some niche thing that has some genuine demand so that me doing it will be the best way to satisfy the demand. Even better if it involves coming up with something that hasn't ever been done before.
I've been rolling around the general argument about physical descriptions and qualia around for a while. As far as I can figure, the argument is something like,
Nothing in the current physical descriptions we understand seems to have anything resembling an explanation of qualia like "the feeling of seeing red"
Future physical descriptions must be essentially "grammatical elaborations" of the current ones. Any written book is stuck in the modality of the alphabet, no matter how long or innovative it is.
Since the elementary "alphabet" of physics doesn't describe qualia, no theory of physics can either.
And my problem here is that this is an awfully confident argument that you get by doing absolutely none of... (read 504 more words →)
LessWrongers dream of an unhurried future without having to fear death.
https://carado.moe/everything-is-okay.html is a dead link. Seems that all of the website is gone and purged from the Wayback Machine.
Nowhere on the whole wide internet works like that! Clearly the vast majority of people do not think that authors shouldn’t moderate their own threads. Practically nowhere on the internet do you even have the option for anything else.
Where's this coming from all of a sudden? Forums work like this, Less Wrong used to work like this. Data Secrets Lox still works like this. Most subreddits work like this. This whole thread is about how maybe the places that work like this have the right idea, so it's a bit late in the game to open up with "they don't exist and aren't a thing anyone wants".
It feels like there's a confusion of different informal social systems with how LW 2.0 has been set up. Forums have traditionally had moderators distinct from posters, and even when moderators also participate in discussions on small forums, there are often informal conventions that a moderator should not put on a modhat if they are already participating in a dispute as a poster, and a second moderator should look at the post instead (you need more than one moderator for this of course).
The LW 2.0 author moderation system is what blog hosting platforms like Blogger and Substack use, and the bid seems to have been to entice people who got big enough... (read more)
Reddit and HN also get it wrong, but less wrong than LW: they show the comment and its subthread, but not the surrounding context.
You can click on the "context" link in a HN subthread view to switch to the one you want.
I used to subscribe to front page posts RSS feed but gave up on it years ago because the signal-to-noise ratio went too low. Now I subscribe to user RSS feeds of a handful of old-timer users who seem to consistently have interesting things to say and then learn about posts they interact with. https://www.greaterwrong.com/ all the way.
The "All of these questions are deeply stupid" bit is what made me like the article and consider it worth reading, so mileage may vary if you smooth out all the stuff like that.