Felicifia: a Utilitarianism Forum

[-]Normal_Anomaly14y80

Thanks for the link! There's a bunch of interesting stuff on here. For instance, here's a subforum on Felicifia that deals with futurism and xrisk:

Utilitarian future Will we transcend our human bodies? Extend our lives? Create superhuman artificial intelligence? Mitigate existential risks? etc.

There's currently a thread in it about whether SIAI is the most optimal charity.

[-]lukeprog14y60

For example, l have an ongoing discussion on Friendly AI and utilitarianism at Felicifa.

[-]Wei Dai14y50

I mentioned Felicifa in a previous post. Unfortunately the Felicifa post I was replying to has disappeared, and can't be found by Google either. I suggest that whoever is in charge ought to make a greater effort to preserve past discussions.

[-]Pablo14y40

There are two Felicifias: the oridinal felicifia.com, which went extinct around 2007, and the current felicifia.org. Seth Baum, the creator of the original Felicifia, kindly sent me the files with all the original content. I am working with others at the current Felicifia to make this material publicly available.

[-]Baldcat14y30

Fortunately it just barely managed to get archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070901222628/http://felicifia.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=89

[-]Pablo13y00

Thanks to the efforts of Seth Baum and James Evans, the old Felicifia site is now back online. Please note that some of the links are not working because the site wasn't archived in its entirety. You can also browse the site by directory structure.

[-]Vladimir_Nesov14y40

Should this be in Main? I noticed it was moved here, but don't know who did it and why.

Edit: OK, moving back to Discussion, unless something new comes up.

[-]DanielLC14y00

I did it, and I initially planned to put it in main, but put it here because I was unsure of my writing skills. I didn't think it would have to go in discussion.

[-]Baldcat14y40

In HTML, URLs must begin with the protocol or they will be assumed to be relative paths.

Change your code to felicifia.org.

[-]DanielLC14y10

Fixed.

Thanks.

[-]Solvent14y20

Yvain links to this in his brilliant Consequentialism FAQ.

Edit: Yvain not Gwern. Sorry.

[-]Nisan14y120

That's Yvain, not gwern.

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[-]Solvent14y00

Of course. Thanks for pointing it out.

[-]rabidchicken14y10

Good link, typo in title, have a good day, thank you for posting on Lesswrong.

[-]VNKKET14y50

Is this comment supposed to be pleasant or unpleasant?

Edit: I asked because "have a good day, thank you for posting" is often used to mean "shut up", but now that I've looked at your past comments, I assume you're being friendly.

[-]DanielLC14y10

typo in title

Fixed.

Thanks.

[-]Baldcat14y10

Prelude to this thread

[-]DanielLC14y00

Sort of. I was hoping someone else would write it for me. I suck at writing.

[-]dbaupp14y50

I suck at writing.

Don't say that, you are only reinforcing that cached self. A good way to improve your writing is to just do it, see what comes out, and iterate.

[-]DanielLC14y10

I don't like writing enough to do it enough. Besides, programming is more awesome anyway.

[-]dbaupp14y10

That's understandable, but it is very easy for it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So I try to avoid saying "I suck at x" for any x, unless there is a very good reason to (like "I'm not very good at surgery").

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