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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 Mar 22

    FACT: Everyone who lives in Australia dies of poisonous snake bites unless something else kills them first.

    8:59 PM - 22 Mar 2018
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    13 replies 33 retweets 281 likes
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      2. Toksyuryel‏ @Toksyuryel Mar 22
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        FACT: Replace 'in Australia' with 'on Earth' and the statement remains true. BONUS FACT: Also replace 'poisonous snake bites' with any other cause of death, and the statement still remains true.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck Mar 22
        Replying to @Toksyuryel @ESYudkowsky

        Heck, replace it with something that isn't a cause of death, like "vitamin C overdose" (estimated to have killed 0 people so far, and to kill 0 more in the foreseeable future) and it's still true. (this is why I don't have much urge to nitcpick "poisonous" vs "venomous")

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Mar 23
        Replying to @daniel_houck @Toksyuryel

        Venemous snakes deliver poisonous snake bites.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      5. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck Mar 23
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky @Toksyuryel

        I thought "poisonous" was modifying "snake", not "bites". In any case, further research indicates that there is little or no historical, technical, or clear-communication reason for defining "poisonous" to exclude the snakes.

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      2. David Fendrich‏ @fnedrik Mar 23
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Everyone who travels by SpaceX to Mars will be killed by Elon Musk's colonialist billionaire "Human, the deadliest prey of all"-safaris. Unless something else kills them first. This fact is strangely absent from the debate.

        1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
      3. Skipped Tick‏ @Skip_tick Mar 23
        Replying to @fnedrik @ESYudkowsky

        👍👍 We must awaken the sheeple to this fact.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck Mar 22
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        I don't like hitting Like on this. I mean, I like the tweet, but not the fact. I hope there are some people currently living in Australia who won't die of snake bites or anything else. Failing that, who can postpone it for at least a couple centuries.

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      3. Toksyuryel‏ @Toksyuryel Mar 22
        Replying to @daniel_houck @ESYudkowsky

        It's a content-free statement, as it is simply a truism. It might mean something if there were some statistics to go along with it, but as it is the statement communicates absolutely nothing.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck Mar 22
        Replying to @Toksyuryel @ESYudkowsky

        The statement communicates that everybody in Australia dies eventually.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Toksyuryel‏ @Toksyuryel Mar 22
        Replying to @daniel_houck @ESYudkowsky

        But my point is that if you will die, it will be the result of a cause of death. And with current technology being alive has a 100% mortality rate. So "You will die of X if something else doesn't kill you first" is always a true statement until technology improves sufficiently.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Daniel Houck‏ @daniel_houck Mar 22
        Replying to @Toksyuryel @ESYudkowsky

        Right. My point was that I hope technology does improve sufficiently, and in the meantime I find the tweet amusing.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim Mar 23
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        David Manheim Retweeted Eliezer Yudkowsky

        Do one in Australia has lived forever, yet. Growth mindset!https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/977031977462251521 …

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        Eliezer YudkowskyVerified account @ESYudkowsky
        FACT: Everyone who lives in Australia dies of poisonous snake bites unless something else kills them first.
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      1. A Famous Actor‏ @WhyChadIsRight Mar 23
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Do you know what percentage of marriage ends in death or divorce?

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      1. ΪǾ1➁⓿º‏ @1oi20o Mar 22
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        FACT: Everyone who lives on Earth dies of paperclip maximization, unless something else, thank god, kills them first.

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      1. Half Well Dad‏ @Ryan30201538 Mar 22
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        Interestingly, it is also true that all of the poisonous snakes in Australia will be killed by humans, unless something else kills them first. Each statement satisfies Yudkowsky’s Something Else Primacy Principle.

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      2.  🤖‏ @ramriot Mar 22
        Replying to @ESYudkowsky

        FALSE, sometimes people survive invenomation then die later of something unrelated.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      3. LambdaDuck‏ @Anka213 Mar 23
        Replying to @ramriot @ESYudkowsky

        That would count as "something else killing them first".

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      4.  🤖‏ @ramriot Mar 23
        Replying to @Anka213 @ESYudkowsky

        Not really, the statement has a restrictor & 3 booleans, my reply is one of two locically unconstrained choices.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. LambdaDuck‏ @Anka213 Mar 24
        Replying to @ramriot @ESYudkowsky

        I interpreted it as "something else kills them before they are killed by snakes". How did you interpret it? What are the three booleans and the restrictor you talk about? I only see two booleans.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. LambdaDuck‏ @Anka213 Mar 24
        Replying to @Anka213 @ramriot @ESYudkowsky

        Forall x in Australian_people, dies_from_venomous_snake_bite(x) if not dies_from_other_cause_first(x).

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