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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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    1. Bryan Caplan‏ @bryan_caplan 5 Dec 2017

      The Flynn Effect versus the greatest minds in history! http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/12/the_flynn_effec.html …

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky 5 Dec 2017
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      I bite, chew, and swallow the bullet that John von Neumann was far smarter than Plato.

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        2. Bryan Caplan‏ @bryan_caplan 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky

          Was von Neumann far smarter than Newton, Leibnitz, or Gauss???

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        3. Lee Pavelich‏ @leepavelich 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @bryan_caplan @ESYudkowsky

          He seems to have been one smart cookie http://infoproc.blogspot.ca/2012/03/only-he-was-fully-awake.html …

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        1. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim 5 Dec 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan

          Are you just pointing out a clear outlier, or are you arguing flynn effect is real? As noted, given relative population numbers, if the latter, you should probably be naming a dozen people smarter than Plato, not one. (But Feynman, Wiles, Perelman, and Knuth all come to mind.)

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        1. nelson horsley‏ @nJJJJRh 6 Dec 2017
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          Harder question: who are the greater minds since?

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        1. DevonSwede‏ @FSvedang 6 Dec 2017
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          not a case of standing on the shoulders of predecessors?

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        1. Rogs‏ @ESRogs 5 Dec 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan

          It practically melts in your mouth!

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        2. David Zugman‏ @DJZ3 5 Dec 2017
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan

          What about Aristotle? And remember that Von Neumann (along with Bertrand Russell!) advocated preemptive nuclear war. Smart or not, f-ing horrid morals

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        3. James Miller‏ @JimDMiller 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @DJZ3 @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan

          In the branches of the multiverse where Petrov wasn't on duty on Sept 26, 1983 von Neumann = Cassandra. Anthropic bias is why it seems he had "f-ing horrid morals".

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        4. David Zugman‏ @DJZ3 6 Dec 2017
          Replying to @JimDMiller @ESYudkowsky @bryan_caplan

          No, he publically advocated a first strike when such a strategy was a real possibility, i.e. before Russia revealed it had the bomb. The estimable William Poundstone wrote at length about it in "The Prisoner's Dilemma"

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        5. James Miller‏ @JimDMiller 6 Dec 2017
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          He wanted to prevent the Soviets from ever getting the bomb. If the U.S. had maintained a monopoly of nuclear weapons the world would likely be a much better place.

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        6. David Zugman‏ @DJZ3 6 Dec 2017
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          Outta ur mind. It would be a dead place

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