paper-machine comments on Thoughts on the Singularity Institute (SI) - Less Wrong

256 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 11 May 2012 04:31AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 May 2012 09:01:55PM 1 point [-]

I was being charitable. Also, I misread the original post; see the comments below.

Comment author: [deleted] 18 May 2012 09:34:46AM *  1 point [-]

Hmm yeah, I read the post again and, if it's a troll, it's a way-more-subtle-than-typical one. Still, my posterior probability assignment on him being serious/sincere is in the 0.40s (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence) -- though this means that the probability that he succeeds given that he's serious is the same order of magnitude as the probability that he succeeds given everything I know.