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

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Comment author: XiXiDu 07 March 2012 11:27:35AM -2 points [-]

I have quoted everything XiXiDu said here so that it is not lost in any future edits.

You might want to save this as well.

...without much contemplation and are done to provoke reactions rather than because they are correct.

Here is how I see it. I am just an uneducated below average IQ individual and don't spend more time on my submissions than it takes to write them. If people are swayed by my ramblings then how firm could their beliefs possible be in the first place?

Many of XiXis contributions consist of persuasive denunciations. [...] there is a risk that he will be taken more seriously than is warranted.

I could have as easily argued in favor of SI. If I was to start now and put some extra effort into it I believe I could actually become more persuasiveness than SI itself. Do you believe that in a world where I did that you would tell people that my arguments are based on little research and that there is a risk that I am taken more seriously than is warranted?

Comment author: [deleted] 07 March 2012 08:17:45PM 6 points [-]

below average IQ individual

Don't self-deprecate too much. Have you taken a (somewhat recent) IQ test, say an online matrix test or the Mensa one? (If so, personal prediction.)

Even though LW over-estimates its own IQ, don't forget how stupid IQ 100 really is.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 07 March 2012 10:57:43PM 3 points [-]

uneducated below average IQ

Don't be ridiculous.

Comment author: XiXiDu 09 March 2012 11:28:31AM 1 point [-]

Don't be ridiculous.

Yesterday I took an IQ test suggested by muflax and scored 78.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 09 March 2012 01:31:16PM 1 point [-]

Yeah, I took it too and scored 37 - because my eyes were closed.

Do you really believe that you're dumber than 90% of all people? (~ IQ of 78; I suppose the SD was 15)

Seriously, do you know just how stupid most humans are?

I deny the data.

Comment author: wedrifid 08 March 2012 12:05:01AM 0 points [-]

For sure. XiXiDu uses grammar correctly! (Well, enough so that "become more persuasiveness" struck me as an editing error rather than typical.)

If someone uses grammar correctly it is an overwhelmingly strong indicator that either they are significantly educated (self or otherwise) or have enough intelligence to compensate!