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it's worth acknowledging about the rationalists that they give lip service to empiricism but the Big Problem around which they nucleated, AI safety, was a problem where eliezer yudkowsky carefully explained that empiricism was impossible so theorizing was our only hope

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Aug 4, 2021

Replying to @QiaochuYuan @m_ashcroft and @sashachapin

brb starting my own version of LessWrong and calling it WhatIfWeActuallyLookedAtTheTerritory

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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probably every time i say “rationalists” i should say “bay area rationalists.” can you briefly describe what you take me to be saying and what you disagree with about it? i think i’m trying to make several points here incoherently so i’m not sure i’m even coming across accurately

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Aug 5, 2021

what kind of empiricism? moore’s law type stuff? this is not at all the impression i got from reading the sequences but i will admit i have no idea what the scene was like in 2004

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