Sonata Green

"Brevity is the soul of wit." —Shakespeare

And so the Nightshade-Gulliver-Safespur scam claims another four victims.

Confidence games can be refined quite a lot, when all your victims are Orpheus-5.7.

Mono Light

A tasteful, lightweight, monospaced design.

I would've expected the MAiD to be a serious PR issue.

I assumed it was something like neuroplasticity.

I think your choice of "contemporary example of inadequate ethical heuristics" weakens the post as a whole, by invoking the specter of the sort of third-rail issue where the discourse is relatively well-modeled by conflict theory. That is, I was loving the post until I got to that part and my brain was suddenly full of maybe-I'm-about-to-be-eaten-by-a-tiger alarms.

Medical prediction markets, like in dath ilan, might prefer a 5-second reaction time to 1-minute.

I feel like this post contains a valuable insight (it's virtuous to distrust and verify, to protect the community against liars), sandwiched inside a terrible framing (honor is for suckers).

I gesture vaguely at Morality as Fixed Computation, moral realism, utility-function blackboxes, Learning What to Value, discerning an initially-uncertain utility function that may not be straightforward to get definitive information about.

Also, the math of AIXI assumes the environment is separably divisible - no matter what you lose, you get a chance to win it back later.

Does this mean that we don't even need to get into anything as esoteric as brain surgery – that AIXI can't learn to play Sokoban (without the ability to restart the level)?

Belief in disbelief, perhaps.

(cf. nonstandard standard toolbox.)

The religious version

You may want something like "the Christian version". Ancient Greek paganism was a religion.

The link is broken; the current location seems to be here.

1. This is our second important observation

The numbering seems to have gotten borked somehow.

Suppose I built a machine with artificial skin that felt the temperature of the cup and added ice to cold cups and lit a fire under hot cups.

Should this say "added ice to hot cups and lit a fire under cold cups"?

"Oh, right," said Xenophon, "How about 'Systems that would adapt their policy if their actions would influence the world in a different way'?"

"Teacup test," said Socrates.

This seems wrong. The artificial-skin cup adds ice or lights fire solely according to the temperature of the cup; if it finds itself in a world where ice makes tea hotter and fire makes tea colder, the cup does not adapt its strategies.

My mouth tasted like wrapping that hadn't been thrown away yet and might still have a little of whatever it used to be wrapped around somewhere on it.

This is a good sentence.

I think this might be trying to talk about something related to identity of indiscernibles, the disquotational principle, and the masked-man fallacy. I'm not sure how you get from "different names for the same entity" to "magical clones", though.