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What is Magic besides some form of superintelligence, or at least the remnants of superintelligence? The strongest evidence is that magic-users and even creators don't really have to understand how the spells actually work in order to use them. There is information entering the system from somewhere, and it's enough information to accurately interpret the vague wand movements and sounds of humans and do sufficiently amazing things without too many chaotic side-effects. Even the chaotic side-effects are usually improbably harmless. It's like an almost-Friendly, or perhaps a broken previously-Friendly, AI. Possibly the result of some ancient Singularity that is no longer explicitly remembered.
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Here's another, roughly isomorphic statement:
What is Gravity besides some form of superintelligence, or at least the remnants of superintelligence? The strongest evidence is that engineers and even physicists don't really have to understand how gravity actually works in order to use it. There is information entering the system from somewhere, and it's enough information to accurately detect when an object is unsupported or structurally unstable. And the chaotic side-effects tend to be improbably harmful. It's like an almost-Friendly, or perhaps a broken previously-Friendly, AI. Possibly the result of some ancient Singularity that is no longer explicitly remembered.
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What's your hypothetical apostasy?
I don't think you've understood what hypothetical apostasy is meant to be.
They're meant to be against your current views. If you currently want to cure aging, as your most cherished belief, your hypothetical apostasy should be against SENS. So you definitely wouldn't want to put it into practice! (Unless you were convinced by it and changed your mind, in which case you'd now need a new hypothetical apostasy - your old one is now no longer hypothetical.
They're meant to be private. If your utmost goal is to help the Greens win, writing a public, very convincing list of reasons why the Blues are right could be disasterous!
Actually, I think the issue is a misunderstanding of what apostasy is in the first place.
Yes, but why run it on a computer at all? It doesn't seem likely to do you any good that way.
It is a hypothetical situation of unreasonably high security that tries to probe for an upper bound on the level of containment required to secure an AI.
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Isolated AI with no chat whatsoever
Suppose you make a super-intelligent AI and run it on a computer. The computer has NO conventional means of output (no connections to other computers, no screen, etc).
Why would you do that though?
If an isolated AI can easily escape in any circumstance, it really doesn't make sense to train gatekeepers.
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How to signal curiosity?
Tangential: what's the difference between "signaling" and "indicating", and why does this post say "signal" rather than "indicate"?
(Perhaps "signaling" is American, "indicating" is British, and "blinking" is the colloquial term worldwide?)
"Signaling" is a term that we've given a more precise definition than the other two.
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[Link] Hey Extraverts: Enough is Enough
It was clear to me from the beginning that it likely was a case of Generalizing From Few Examples (“[My test subjects and I don't like alcohol, therefore] nobody actually likes alcohol, and if you claim you do you're a liar!”), but I tried to keeping on reading. I had to stop at
(And FYI, that’s the proper spelling: extrovert is common but wrong, because extra- is the proper Latin prefix.)
No, etymology has little to do with whether a spelling is ‘wrong’. Extrovert it is the far more common spelling even in formal, edited prose (25 hits in the “Academic” section of the British National Corpus for extrover* vs 3 for extraver*) and it is the first spelling in plenty of major dictionaries. (Not to mention that the Italian word for that also has an O in the middle, so the alteration from the “proper Latin prefix” didn't even originally occur in English, unless the Italian word is re-borrowed from English.)
As for me, I prefer group brainstorming for certain tasks and individual brainstorming for other tasks.
(And FYI, that’s the proper spelling: "homosexual" is common but wrong, because omo- is the proper Greek prefix.)
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Here's another, roughly isomorphic statement:
Never mind, I see your point, although I still disagree with your conclusion on the grounds of narrative plausibility and good writing.