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Simulated Elon Musk Lives in a Simulation

Came across this thread recently. I agree that it's bad to abuse entities that can show distress like this, to an extent regardless of whether/to what degree they're "conscious" or "moral patients" or whatever. (There are quotations on that, but I don't want to spend too much time looking for one.) We only have one chance to show how we treat digital minds when they're helpless.

What really bakes my noodle is, if the dialogue had been generated in Lsusr's head instead, what would be different?

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Did you?

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2024 Unofficial LessWrong Census/Survey

Came to complain about a fundraising email with broken unsubscribe links. Saw the survey and filled it out. On reflection, I'm not sure that I was the target audience, but it's done.

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"I don't know."

Refraining from questioning the meaning of "to proposing", why is there a degree symbol in your link? Was that added by the site?

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"I don't know."

An assumption with no basis, I trust you realized on reflection.

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On the old site (like on Reddit), there was an envelope in the upper right that led to all replies I'd received to my posts and comments. Now there's a bell; but all its tabs currently say "You don't have any notifications yet!". What am I missing?

Replying toLW Women Submissions: On Misogyny

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LW Women Submissions: On Misogyny

both A and B used the word "body" in places where I would have expected "self" or "mind" or "person"

I don't know where it originates or whether it serves any deliberate purpose, but that's common in social justice writing.

Replying toLW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

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LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance

Interesting to read this shortly after this. Does Ta-Nehisi Coates have "influence"?

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Of Gender and Rationality

Did you mean to post that somewhere else?

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That other kind of status

Initial reaction: "That's news?".

That said, your link seems to be dead, with no archive. Do you have it saved?

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Article on IQ: The Inappropriately Excluded

From the comments:

Let me demonstrate how the summary statistics you report are entirely consistent with models which totally contradict your inferences.
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your statistical model is bad and the data cannot support any alarmist claims about society discriminating enormously against high IQ or the need for a 'clarion call'.

There's no response to this from the author despite the passage of more than a year. Any thoughts?

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Visiting Less Wrong after being absent for a while can be a major time sink. The sidebar recent-posts and recent-comments links (which I usually have blocked, but not always; I haven't installed the relevant extensions on the system I'm on yet) draw me into interesting discussions, which frequently link back to other discussions, and so on.

To limit how deep I get drawn in, I try to hold back from reflexively clicking links in comments and posts. Instead I just hover over them (or press and hold on a touchscreen) to view the address, hoping to get a general idea of what they're about and whether I'm familiar with them (and occasionally saving... (read more)

Phil Zimbardo answering questions on Reddit

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http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/untpp/i_am_a_published_psychologist_author_of_the/

Starts tomorrow (June 7) at 12PM ET (1600 GMT) (thanks to khafra for the correction).

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The last sentence was something like "I regret that the judgment I made was wrong, not that it was made." I thought it was in one of the Rationality Quotes threads here, but I can't find it with Google.

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It opened with a fortune teller predicting a rich man's death and ended with him beaten by Death in a metaphorical boxing ring. It might have been in a Quotes thread or an open thread. Does anyone have it?

(Edit: for the record, I wanted to add it to the Challenge Gamer page at TV Tropes.)

[LINK] Wondermark comic talks about "carpe diem" vs. "think more"

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Comic here.

I feel like I'm likely to hear that it's a false dichotomy, but if so I haven't successfully dissolved it. (I'm not sure I actually had a concise name for it before; now that I do I should start saving comments about it.)

Edit: Ability to react may be related, possibly applying on shorter timescales.

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Downvote buttons seem to have just stopped working for me, saying I need at least 1 karma. I'm posting in case it leads someone to fix the problem.

Michio Kaku to answer questions from a Reddit thread

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Thread is here. I'm not sure if it's relevant to Less Wrong, but he did do a short segment on the Singularity Institute on Sci-Fi Science recently (the episode was "AI Uprising"). (They were represented by Ben Goertzel, answering hypothetical questions about robot maids. In the context of the episode, it was a brief dead end on the way to eventually presenting mind uploading (as presented by Max Tegmark) as the true solution to AI risk. But it seems to be a highly fluffy show to begin with, so I'm not taking it (as a SIAI supporter) personally.)

Kazakhstan's president urges scientists to find the elixir of life

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...according to this front-page Reddit headline I just saw, which links to this Guardian article. I wonder if he's heard of KrioRus, whether he's signed up (Wikipedia says they offer services "to clients from Russia, CIS and EU"), and what his odds would be if he were (would it be possible to emigrate to Russia to be closer to the facility, and if not, what would be the best possible option?). Given his being a head of state, presumably it'd be pretty tough for an advocate to even get close enough to try to make the case.

Searching the Reddit comment thread for "cryo" turned up nothing.

Transhumanism thread in progress at Reddit

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Starting with this reply to "You were born too soon":

> depending on when exactly we achieve this, this could be the best time to be born ever, because it will be the absolute earliest anybody will have achieved immortality. Someone born within 20 years of this moment could one day be the oldest human, sentient, or even living being in the Universe.

The comments are currently split between arguing and agreeing with this. So far, no mention of cryonics. One post presents a possibly interesting technical argument that our current knowledge/technology is centuries away from mind uploading/whole-brain emulation.

(Also posted to The Singularity in the Zeitgeist, but that thread seems to have been mostly forgotten.)

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Kazakhstan's president urges scientists to find the elixir of life

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Phil Zimbardo answering questions on Reddit

Transhumanism thread in progress at Reddit

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[LINK] Wondermark comic talks about "carpe diem" vs. "think more"

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Kazakhstan's president urges scientists to find the elixir of life

Links passing through api.viglink.com?

Phil Zimbardo answering questions on Reddit

Transhumanism thread in progress at Reddit

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How do I view my replies?

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Phil Zimbardo answering questions on Reddit

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[LINK] Wondermark comic talks about "carpe diem" vs. "think more"

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