Open thread, Jan. 16 - Jan. 22, 2016

MrMind

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If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, then it goes here.

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How disappointing. No one on LW appears to want to discuss this. Except for a few who undoubtedly misunderstood this post and started raving about some irrelevant topics. At least let me know why you don't want to.

1) How would we go about changing human behavior to be more aligned with reality?

Aligned with reality = Accepting facts fully (probably leads to EA ideas, science, etc)

2) When presented with scientific evidence, why do we not change our behavior? That's the question and how do we change it?

Accepting facts fully (probably leads to EA ideas,

It's more likely to lead to Islam; that's at least on the right side of the is-ought gap.

1username29y

Replace all humans with machines. [...] That's basically related to the entire topic of this site. People probably aren't engaging with this question because it's too tiresome to summarize all the information that is available from that little search bar in the upper right corner.