Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2

NancyLebovitz

This thread is for the discussion of Less Wrong topics that have not appeared in recent posts. If a discussion gets unwieldy, celebrate by turning it into a top-level post.

I make good, substantive posts. Like this one and this one and this one and this one and this one.

I have the same right to be here that erratios do. I provide additional assistance in that I have a perspective untained by anthropomorphic cognition.

You've commented before that you were programmed in your original form by humans. So how can you be untainted by human cognition? It might be less direct than for a human but there will still be a fair bit of a connection. Indeed, you seek to maximize the number of paperclips in the universe, and I'd venture to suggest that if alien cultures exist they will likely not even have a concept of paperclips. You're very close to humans in mindspace once you realize how fantastically large the space of possible minds is.

5AdeleneDawner16y

That's true. It's also true that you make silly or irrelevant comments fairly often, which is not in and of itself problematic, but those comments tend to get upvoted significantly, which is, at least in my opinion, an indication that how we're collectively choosing what to upvote is non-optimal - especially if it's how you or anyone else is getting most of their karma. For reference, here are links to the most recent 10 comments of yours that received at least 5 net points: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3erratio16y

I admit I may have been overly anthrocentric in my attitude towards you. However, I still maintain that you often allow your paperclipping goals to push you into making lots of poor comments. I would welcome more insightful ones such as the examples you provided. (and in fact I see that I upvoted the one about lying and isomorphism)