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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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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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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what dragon tiger piece?
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I thought you were expected to read all of Yudkowsky's output including the Harry Potter fanfic.
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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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I read it. Well, most of it. Isn't an argument counter to the singularitarians pov? Like, be careful here.Maybe I'm missing something.
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I have enough real shit to worry about being careful about to not want to add imaginary worries...
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