wedrifid comments on AI Risk and Opportunity: A Strategic Analysis - Less Wrong

8 Post author: lukeprog 04 March 2012 06:06AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (161)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: wedrifid 07 March 2012 11:57:38PM *  1 point [-]

If this is true, then if you try to make him feel culpability for his communication acts as usual, this will only make his fear stronger and make him more desperate to find a way out, and make him even more willing to break normal conversational rules.

I certainly wouldn't try to make him feel culpability. Or, for that matter, "try to make him" anything at all. I don't believe I have the ability to influence XiXi significantly and I don't believe it would be useful to try (any more). It is for this reason that I rather explicitly spoke in the third person to any prospective future readers that it may be appropriate to refer here in the future. Pretending that I was actually talking to XiXiDu when I was clearly speaking to others is would just be insulting to him.

There are possible future cases (and plenty of past cases) where a reply to one of XiXiDu's fallacious denunciations that consists of simply a link here is more useful than ignoring the comment entirely and hoping that the damage done is minimal.

Comment author: XiXiDu 08 March 2012 09:51:46AM 1 point [-]

...one of XiXiDu's fallacious denunciations...

Show me just one.

Comment author: XiXiDu 08 March 2012 10:20:25AM 0 points [-]

I don't believe I have the ability to influence XiXi significantly...

You could easily influence me with actual arguments.