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Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.
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Why is the word "dreams" used to describe both pseudorandom nocturnal hallucinations and also heartfelt aspirations for real life?
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Human value depends on the world. Running a theorem prover establishes a dependence of human value on the theorem prover's theory.
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When asked to be specific, give a description that abounds with implicit non-trivial consequences.
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An agent controls its output without controlling its program. Could the value of the world be controlled without control over its state?
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A consequentialist formal system decides which theorems to have based on the hypothetical consequences of their truth about its models.
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I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.
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Concepts are inference applicability heuristics; ruling X an instance of Y without expecting novel inferences is cargo cult classification.
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A game composes players' responses to their beliefs with the dependence of their beliefs on each other's responses.
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Nick Bostrom's Fable of the Dragon Tyrant in Philosophy Now: http://www.philosophynow.org/issues/89/The_Fable_of_the_Dragon-Tyrant …
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Decisions are self-fulfilling beliefs; actions are self-fulfilling evidence.
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Compartmentalization is sustained by cached hidden inferences of propriety of context.
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You are not your mind; you are the one who comes after, observing, and one who comes before, determining.
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"Because" conflates explanation and justification. Use with caution.
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Epistemic rationality is about forming accurate understanding of the decision problem, not just the world.
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The brain is an organ that senses mathematics.
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The more you care about, the bigger your world becomes.
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Thinking involves updating your map on the state of your map.
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Improving the territory takes a good map, a part of the territory particularly worth improving and depicting in detail.
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