Instead of pressuring a child to continue eating after they’re already satiated by saying something like “there are children starving in the world” let’s explain to them The Law of Diminishing Utility
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Replying to @orthonormalist @sonyasupposedly
Lol is that what rationalist means?! I’ve been hearing this word a lot lately
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* Something formal in philosophy * People who take a strong philosophical inspiration from Yudkowsky's sequences * People who take an inspiration from the LW gestalt * People who may never have participated in the site in its heyday but are part of the cultural milieu (me)
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Usually when used pejoratively it's pointed at the second definition with the implication that they are slavishly devoted to Yudkowsky's views. This is rarely accurate.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @auderdy
I have yet to read a SneerClub-esque take that doesn't basically boil down to "the nerds figured out how to have social power and I'm very mad"
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err...I sometimes sneer a bit at Yud etc but not remotely because they have social power. They have, to a good approximation, none.
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disagree. Yud can write an email to [various SV names redacted, but not *only* who you might think] and get money for approximately anything he wants to do. that's social power
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hmm we know this ... because he's done it? is this the AI risk thing?
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yes, empirically he's able to get not insubstantial amounts of money for stuff that isn't even practical. imagine if he came up with an idea that would plausibly have a near-term return! (I don't expect him too do that though)
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