Will_Newsome comments on Reply to Holden on 'Tool AI' - Less Wrong

94 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2012 06:00PM

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Comment author: pleeppleep 12 June 2012 12:37:14PM *  28 points [-]

When I read posts like this I feel like an independent everyman watching a political debate.

The dialogue is oversimplified and even then I don't fully grasp exactly what's being said and the implications thereof, so I can almost feel my opinion shifting back and forth with each point that sounds sort of, kinda, sensible when I don't really have the capacity to judge the statements. I should probably try and fix that.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 12 June 2012 06:13:35PM 16 points [-]

The analogy is apt: blue-vs.-green politics aren't the only kind of politics, and debates over singularity policy have had big mind-killing effects on otherwise-pretty-rational LW folk before.