MileyCyrus comments on A Marriage Ceremony for Aspiring Rationalists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MileyCyrus 24 July 2012 12:40:38AM 11 points [-]

For myself - seeing the meaning of this wedding through my own eyes - I would affirm and support above all else the wholehearted decision of Will and Divia to forge a more lasting bond because they both wished to bring a new child into the world. That responsibility is owed to any endeavor of creating a new sentient life.

Pleasantly surprised to see Eliezer hasn't jumped on single-parenting-is-just-as-good-as-double-parenting bandwagon. Also surprised to see that he's okay with rationalists reproducing. Isn't that a distraction from fighting existential risk?

Comment author: [deleted] 24 July 2012 02:08:48AM 7 points [-]

Also surprised to see that he's okay with rationalists reproducing. Isn't that a distraction from fighting existential risk?

If rationalists fail to reproduce, they quickly lose the democratic-political-metagame.

Comment author: MileyCyrus 24 July 2012 03:06:43AM 12 points [-]

It's quicker to recruit existing people and turn them into rationalists than to create new people from scratch. This approach will eventually exhaust the gene pool, but not for hundreds of generations.

Comment author: wedrifid 24 July 2012 08:51:49AM 16 points [-]

It's quicker to recruit existing people and turn them into rationalists than to create new people from scratch.

But far less fun!

Comment author: DaFranker 24 July 2012 07:25:17PM *  4 points [-]

But training new rationalists "from scratch" seems far more practical for purely experimental purposes. Don't they make the perfect cute little control groups, after all?

Comment author: nykos 30 July 2012 05:24:53PM 1 point [-]

Good luck explaining Bayes' law to people with IQs below 90.

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