oh my god this post and the comments are a disaster. if lesswrong had sane moderation it'd have been nuked in seconds but of course they need to believe the most important thing they can do is use reason and talk through it. don't worry about all the private information we're leaking!
best bit
also loving the part where he seems to say people should focus on saving the world from the robot menace instead of calling out his behaviour
yeah if anything this is making yud look good T_T amazing stuff
So, I’m sorry, in the last couple of months since I last checked, he’s started having sex with his manic pixie dream bot slash servant slash daughter? Man I wonder how people in his IRC channel are doing.
Apologies for radical feministing but "biological sex" is also a constructed category! It's useful shorthand for quick categorising a bunch of related traits if you're doing biology, but it does not meaningfully exist on an individual scale. There is no more reason to divide humanity on the basis of sex than on the basis of hair colour.
Isn't it sort of a big point that the Culture is an oddity in that it's thriving on inertia instead of doing like so many other civilisations and transcending out of physical reality?
HN:
The cost of saving a kid in Africa by donating malaria medicine and insecticidal nets is only about $5,000. How many people do you know who will cancel their Hawaii vacation and donate that money to an African charity?
tfw your model of an average person on earth is someone who spends $5,000 on a hawaii vacation. good lord.
I love the way people who go “yeah but IN REAL LIFE with real stakes you would totally chose the red button”
yeah he rules
Ah yup, that is definitely the type of person who’s deeply attracted to cults.
Unfortunately there are a few things that make courts pretty tricky to implement in practice for things like the rationality, AI safety and EA communities. Badly implemented courts also can just make things worse by creating a clear target for attack and pressure. Seems very tricky, but probably we should have more courts (or maybe not, I would need to write the post to figure it out).
yesss yesss lesswrong people's tribunals and struggle sessions let's gooooooooo
least egotistical lesswronger