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Ours is the era of inadequate AI alignment theory. Any other facts about this era are relatively unimportant, but sometimes I tweet about them anyway.

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    Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 3 Jan 2017

    To me, God is not an agent, not an active Mind, but a state of being where we choose ordinary-usage-compliant definitions and stick to them.

    11:09 AM - 3 Jan 2017
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      2. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        what if those ordinary usage compliant definitions contain broken assumptions or are contradictory?

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      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @APXHard

        Then we say, "I think the common usage of 'God' is self-contradictory (because xyz) but it has a near-neighbor concept that isn't."

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        that's a far better way to express what i wanted to express

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. Fabian Lischka‏ @FabianLischka 4 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        just to confirm (as there was no 😂): this was a joke where you praise not re-defining terms while re-defining a term, right?

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      3. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 4 Jan 2017
        Replying to @FabianLischka

        More of a complaint about usage distortions but yes.

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      1. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @pro2rat @ArthurB

        Why destroy what you can hack and reprogram?

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      1. Arthur B.  🚀‏ @ArthurB 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        so God is also the friends you make along the way?

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      1. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        a usage compliant definition of lighting would be"the weapon of Thor" if we were Vikings

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      2. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Mark P Xu Neyer Retweeted Mark P Xu Neyer

        i.e. this looks like a response to my tweet here: https://twitter.com/APXHard/status/816353604432867330 … but i have no way to verify or confirm

        Mark P Xu Neyer added,

        Mark P Xu Neyer @APXHard
        To me, #God is neither an agent making choices, nor mind with desires, nor person exchanging messages, but a context-free, invariant #truth.
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      3. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @APXHard @ESYudkowsky

        this defn' is entirely compliant with ordinary usage but that requires some unpacking. If you weren't referencing me then oops

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      1. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 24 May 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        at the end of unsong: "To me, He’s always been a sort of logical necessity" - i.e., a logical invariant

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      2. ..... 📡 OBE, GCB, KT‏ @ProbablyTooMuch 4 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        .@ESYudkowsky Zizek wrote: God died with Christ, but practising a set of loving behaviors resurects his [Holy] Ghost, closest we come to him

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      4. ..... 📡 OBE, GCB, KT‏ @ProbablyTooMuch 4 Jan 2017
        Replying to @pro2rat

        interesting to see Zizek rationalize the colossal failure of vision/execution on Trotsky's part; no way I'm paying to do so tho :)

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      1. NegativeSplits‏ @NegativeSplits 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        . Gibberish

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      2. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        if people went around saying "5 is a sky person who enables boron and Pentagons", saying 5 doesn't exist is unreasonable

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      3. Mark P Xu Neyer‏ @APXHard 3 Jan 2017
        Replying to @APXHard @ESYudkowsky

        and so is using the existing "standards complaint" definition. Reasonable move is to change defitnion.

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