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Open Letter to MIRI + Tons of Interesting Discussion

by Elliot Temple

22nd Nov 2017

1 min read

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This is a linkpost for http://curi.us/2065-open-letter-to-machine-intelligence-research-institute

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"Not getting shunned" is not quite the same thing as attempting "persuasion via attaining social status".

Which method do you think can work for what you want to do? Any success so far?

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"Not getting shunned" is not quite the same thing as attempting "persuasion via attaining social status".

David Deutsch has status. It hasn't worked for him. Worse, seeking status compromised him intellectually.

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Reason. Some. Appeasing irrational shunning criteria is intellectually self-destructive and those people don't matter intellectually anyway.