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Armok_GoB comments on Thinking soberly about the context and consequences of Friendly AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 16 October 2012 04:33AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 17 October 2012 03:17:12PM 0 points [-]

Ok, we have a serious problem with upvoating any criticism of common memes no mater how inane for fear of seeming phlygish. If this was about just about any other subject it'd be downvoted to oblivion.

Comment author: endoself 17 October 2012 09:49:21PM 5 points [-]

That's possible, but I find it more likely that we have a silent majority of people who are on the periphery of the community and are uncomfortable with a lot of the singularitarian memes. I think that a lot of internet communities with voting have a lot of people who vote but don't comment or comment only occasionally, so you'd expect that voting would reflect more peripheral members more strongly than the discussion would.

Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 21 October 2012 12:03:24AM 0 points [-]

The singularity have diverse connotations; is good to specify what memes you're thinking.

Comment author: endoself 21 October 2012 01:33:31AM 1 point [-]

I mean the ones that most prominent LWers endorse.