.@asilentsky I think *some* effort on the FAI problem is justified, but @slatestarcodex’s defense seemed mostly special pleading.
@Meaningness @asilentsky It all seems incoherent and mad to me, but so does the whole bootstrap apocalypse and they take that seriously.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness @asilentsky Not taking the bootstrap apocalypse seriously and being wrong means you die. -
@A_P_Mason@Meaningness @asilentsky Not taking God seriously and being wrong means going to Hell. Pascal's wager in cyberpunk drag. -
@St_Rev@A_P_Mason @asilentsky nice summary of singularitarianism as religion. -
@Meaningness@A_P_Mason @asilentsky For what it's worth, Yudkowsky has disclaimed ∞×ε type arguments in his exchanges with Holden Karnofsky. -
@Meaningness@A_P_Mason @asilentsky Maybe one can argue singularitarianism requires ∞×ε arguments, but it's not the line that's being taken. -
@Meaningness@A_P_Mason @asilentsky Rather, it's supposed to be U×P with U a huge number and P maybe smallish but not super small. -
@MemberOfSpecies Hmm, not sure it was clear I was using “∞” as shorthand for “very large, unspecified, finite number.” -
@MemberOfSpecies If that *was* clear, I’m not sure how what I attributed to singularitarianism differs from the actual argument. - 10 more replies
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.