Tacit assumption of rationalism is that humans are rational in their essence and only contingently irrational due to
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
accident of running on lousy hardware. We are shadows of our Platonic Ideal selves, who have tidy mathematical definitions.
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Benevolent AI could easily see which Ideal we each correspond to, and replace the corrupt wetware with that.
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not multiple incompatible ones for each person, much less different people?
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And they think Aumann’s Agreement Theorem proves that we’d all be identical if only it weren’t for wetware limitations.
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Or, put another way, there is a unique optimal response to any input, and after the Singularity, we will do that.
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As I understand it, Aumann is more about same beliefs resulting from *different* information (given assumptions)
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I'm sorry for strawmanning I was cranky
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I'm sorry for being counter-cranky
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(by "counter-cranky" I mean "cranky as counter", not "counter to crankiness")
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"Suppose that your current self wants to use an elaborate system of ropes and sticks to obtain a tasty banana,"
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I have actually read that paper but it's been years
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