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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. Tamzin Blake ⚧‏ @tamzinblake Mar 19
      Replying to @RandallJEllis @ESYudkowsky

      Entire stars / planets / ecosystems / black holes

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    2. Randall J. Ellis‏ @RandallJEllis Mar 19
      Replying to @tamzinblake @ESYudkowsky

      Extracting resources from them? What is the money maker?

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    3. Tamzin Blake ⚧‏ @tamzinblake Mar 19
      Replying to @RandallJEllis @ESYudkowsky

      Whatever you think might be worth money on Earth, all put together, as a start. Earth is an example of a planet. Other planets not having been utilized is a sign that something is up. And we know of even better uses we can put to stars rather than letting them burn away.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. Randall J. Ellis‏ @RandallJEllis Mar 19
      Replying to @tamzinblake @ESYudkowsky

      I appreciate the explanation. Could you elaborate and/or give me relevant references?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    5. Tamzin Blake ⚧‏ @tamzinblake Mar 19
      Replying to @RandallJEllis @ESYudkowsky

      Great filter: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Great_Filter … fermi paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox … dyson spheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere …

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    6. Randall J. Ellis‏ @RandallJEllis Mar 19
      Replying to @tamzinblake @ESYudkowsky

      Thanks, but I meant references about future space industries worth septillions of dollars

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    7. Ruby Ridge Seth Rich‏ @jacksowrd Apr 3
      Replying to @RandallJEllis @ESYudkowsky

      Space is infinite, asteroids are made of easily accessible pure minerals etc

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    8. Randall J. Ellis‏ @RandallJEllis Apr 3
      Replying to @jacksowrd @ESYudkowsky

      With how unspecific all of the answers and references I got are, I’m of the opinion that most people who read Eliezer’s material are doing it to signal and don’t really absorb it.

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    9. Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Apr 3
      Replying to @RandallJEllis @jacksowrd

      Often true, but here they're having trouble because your ontologies don't match. We're thinking that the stars contain decillions of grams of hydrogen extractible by star-lifting superintelligences, you're asking for documentation on squishy asteroid miners looking for platinum.

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    10. Randall J. Ellis‏ @RandallJEllis Apr 3
      Replying to @ESYudkowsky @jacksowrd

      Sad no one else could make this understandable. So the idea is that extracting hydrogen would allow the creation of any and all other materials?

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      Eliezer Yudkowsky‏Verified account @ESYudkowsky Apr 3
      Replying to @RandallJEllis @jacksowrd

      Sort of. That still doesn't quite match ontology; most of what you need to run computations is negentropy, not silicon. You're mostly converting stars to energy faster or more efficiently instead of letting the light shine wastefully out to nowhere.

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        1. Randall J. Ellis‏ @RandallJEllis Apr 3
          Replying to @ESYudkowsky @jacksowrd

          I see. So the septillions of dollars come from the value of stars as sources of energy rather than materials

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