When it comes to questions of embodiment and thermodynamics, there are two ways to go, and both involve identifying the correct level of abstraction at which to talk about the dynamics of information:
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This is why I don’t engage with your crowd. Too far apart for useful discussion. You guys do you and our descendants can decide who was right.
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I'm not sure which crowd you think I'm with. The thing is that I completely agree with you on the poverty of the IQ++ model of intelligence and the otherwise intellectual bankruptcy of the (utilitarian) LW model of AGI that dominates the discourse.
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I pegged you as strong AI crowd due to your dismissal of hard-problem crowd as mysterian 😆
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Are you saying this is incorrect tagging? How would you characterize your position on the map?
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Me and go under the label 'neorationalism' which we take every possible opportunity to distinguish from LW style rationalism (deontologistics.co/2018/02/11/on-). Basically, we think AGI means computationally precise German Idealism (Kant and Hegel).
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Ah you guys have been in my peripheral vision via but haven’t had a chance to dig in yet. So now there are post, meta, and neo rationalists on the scene. I was going by pararationalist a while back as a joke. I may resurrect that.
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Hmm. @Meaningness has claimed metarationality and @sarahdoingthing has claimed postrationality. I need to claim a prefix too. I think I'll take "para."
I'm a pararationalist. Yay!
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We've been using the term since around 2014, but we're not exactly mainstream. I'm a big believer in experimental pluralism and solidarity across different intellectual commitments. Para-rationalism is good by me. 🖖
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Breaking my promise not to share anything else, if there's one thing by me to watch, cause it covers pretty much every dimension of my philosophical-political project, it's 'Autonomy and Automation' given at Strelka for :
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Ah some overlap in orbits there, I might be doing something with strelka at some point hello again Benjamin
I had an absolute blast while I was there. The students are delightful.
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