as small as a world and as large as alone

feliscorvus:

canonicalmomentum:

well now…

actually there’s a pretty good wiki article that explains it here (not the best wiki in general but they cover this pretty well)

The short version is that an inevitable deific artifical intelligence will potentially create a perfect simulation of you and torture that simulation in order to retroactively motivate the present you who is imagining this possibility to donate all your money to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in order to bring about the development of the artificial intelligence more quickly, and that by merely reading about this possibility you have made this much more likely to happen.

It’s an idea that bubbled up in a transhumanist internet community called Less Wrong and was heavily censored, which is the main reason that it is now famous-ish.

But I’ll have a go at explaining how this idea came up! I’m not sure how much of this you already know about LessWrong et al. but I’ve been kind of meaning to write about these things anyway, so let’s have a go right from the beginning.

This got really really long, putting it behind a cut to spare your dash.

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Gaaaah, this is a great reminder of why I stopped even trying to read LW. It’s not “rationality” those guys are about, it’s “rationalIZING”. And generally the things they rationalized tended to be bat-crap-asinine notions along the lines of “why we’re justified in believing we’re the smartest people on earth”.

Bleah.

Holy crap even for them that’s out there.  I really, really don’t like their website, or the way they suck people into this stuff, or, really, anything about them.  It all ‘senses’ to me as inside out and backwards and dangerous.

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    I’m slowly becoming more and more interested in this idea, not because I think it’s incredibly valid, but because I do...

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    the hell am i reading

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    For all your self-styled “rationalist” trainwreck needs.

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    I think he (EY) banned it because he was genuinely afraid of the idea. As in, he thought that even invoking it in...

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    Holy crap even for them that’s out there. I really, really don’t like their website, or the way they suck people into...

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    this shit right here is why we should all go out and hit a nerd if they ask why tell them its an acausal trade

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    That’s fair about not thinking ‘intelligence’ is a thing, or that the kind of people who spend their time fantasizing...

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    Many of us, including me, have been put off by LessWrong as well - seems something of a self-important circle-jerk of...

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