Being expected to read Bostrom before debating Singularitarians is like atheists being expected to read the Bible before debating Christians
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The burden is on Singularitarians (as it is on Biblical literalists) to make enough of a prima facie case for skeptics to even read the book
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Reading a big fat book is a serious investment, like taking a case to trial. You have to make the indictment stick first.
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It's a hard problem for anything with long inferential depth. Allegory like the dragon-tyrant piece doesn't cut it either.
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Except the Bible is interesting on several other fronts (relatively-intact Bronze Age literature, huge influence on European culture).
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that's only if you agree it's well posed and want to argue that it is friendly I thought 🤓
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…being expected to read Lacan before debating postmodernists…
versatile!
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oh god that article is grade-A bullshit along a whole *other* vector. No shortage of flawed thinking in this area.
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