XiXiDu comments on Q&A with new Executive Director of Singularity Institute - Less Wrong

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Comment author: XiXiDu 04 March 2012 05:03:55PM *  0 points [-]

Quite possible! But in any case, a sentence can carry lots of information about one thing, but not another. One has to look at the probability of a sentence or claim conditional on a specific thing. As I see it, P(AS says some people would be alienated | SI has a terrible secret strategy) is about equal to ...

Blah blah blah...full stop. We're talking about the communication of primates with other primates. Evolution honed your skills to detect the intention and possible bullshit in the output of other primates. Use your intuition!

I disagree. LWers have a range of opinions on AI & the singularity ...

I am not sure what you are getting at. If she thinks that there are strategies that should be kept secrete for political reasons or whatever and admits it, that's bad from any possible viewpoint.

Comment author: satt 05 March 2012 02:14:43AM 2 points [-]

Use your intuition!

I have. My gut didn't raise a red flag when I read AnnaSalamon's post, but it did when I read yours.

I am not sure what you are getting at.

I was giving a reason for my claim that there'd be someone on LW/in SI who'd be alienated by all but the blandest of strategies.

If she thinks that there are strategies that should be kept secrete for political reasons or whatever and admits it, that's bad from any possible viewpoint.

Maybe she thinks that and maybe she doesn't, but either way she didn't admit it. (At least not in the post I'm talking about. I haven't read AS's whole comment history.)

Comment author: drethelin 04 March 2013 07:11:31AM -2 points [-]

To my intuitions you sound exactly like a bitter excluded nobody attacking someone successful and popular. You DON'T talk like someone who sees through the lies of an evil greedy deceiver and honestly wants people to examine what he says and come to the correct opinion.