diegocaleiro comments on After critical event W happens, they still won't believe you - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 June 2013 09:59PM

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 14 June 2013 03:40:24AM 4 points [-]

At the Edge question 2009 6 people spoke of immortality (de Grey not included). and 17 people spoke of superintelligence/humans 2.0.

This seems like evidence for Aubrey's point of view.

Of all the things that 151 top scientists could think they'd live to see, that more than 10% converged on that without previous communication in that stuff is perplexing for anyone who was a transhumanist in 2005.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 15 June 2013 04:37:02AM 5 points [-]

without previous communication

No, these people all have long term relationships with Brockman/Edge, which even holds parties bringing them together.

Comment author: gwern 15 June 2013 07:48:35PM 0 points [-]

Indeed, when I was looking at Edge's tax filings, it seemed to me that the entire point of Edge was basically funding their parties.