Vladimir Nesov

@vladimirnesov

Not taking over the world is NOT OK.

Moscow, Russia
Joined October 2009

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  1. Worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom. We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.

  2. Why is the word "dreams" used to describe both pseudorandom nocturnal hallucinations and also heartfelt aspirations for real life?

  3. Human value depends on the world. Running a theorem prover establishes a dependence of human value on the theorem prover's theory.

  4. When asked to be specific, give a description that abounds with implicit non-trivial consequences.

  5. An agent controls its output without controlling its program. Could the value of the world be controlled without control over its state?

  6. 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.

  8. Concepts are inference applicability heuristics; ruling X an instance of Y without expecting novel inferences is cargo cult classification.

  9. A game composes players' responses to their beliefs with the dependence of their beliefs on each other's responses.

  10. Nick Bostrom's Fable of the Dragon Tyrant in Philosophy Now:

  11. Decisions are self-fulfilling beliefs; actions are self-fulfilling evidence.

  12. Compartmentalization is sustained by cached hidden inferences of propriety of context.

  13. You are not your mind; you are the one who comes after, observing, and one who comes before, determining.

  14. "Because" conflates explanation and justification. Use with caution.

  15. Epistemic rationality is about forming accurate understanding of the decision problem, not just the world.

  16. The brain is an organ that senses mathematics.

  17. The more you care about, the bigger your world becomes.

  18. Thinking involves updating your map on the state of your map.

  19. Improving the territory takes a good map, a part of the territory particularly worth improving and depicting in detail.

  20. Hidden motives or innocent failure?

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