katydee comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

36 Post author: multifoliaterose 15 August 2010 07:16AM

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Comment author: katydee 16 August 2010 10:24:26AM -1 points [-]

A typical smart person would find the laugh test credible? We must have different definitions of "smart."

Comment author: timtyler 16 August 2010 05:01:26PM 2 points [-]

The topic was the banned topic and the deleted posts - not the laugh test. If you explained what happened to an outsider - they would have a hard time believing the story - since the explanation sounds so totally crazy and ridiculous.

Comment author: katydee 16 August 2010 07:11:06PM 0 points [-]

I'll try to test that, but keep in mind that my standards for "fully understanding" something are pretty high. I would have to explain FAI theory, AI-FOOM, CEV, what SIAI was, etc.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 August 2010 12:36:19PM 1 point [-]

(Voted you back up to 0 here.)

I think you are right about the laugh test itself.