In response to 2014 Survey Results
Comment author: hxka 05 January 2015 09:32:28PM 2 points [-]

It looks to me like everyone was horrendously underconfident on all the easy questions, and horrendously overconfident on all the hard questions.

Have you ranked questions by their easiness before you looked at the results?

Comment author: hxka 15 November 2014 03:27:11PM 0 points [-]

You could even say that "could" for an action is always defined relative to the agent who takes that action, in which case I can simultaneously make the following two statements:

  • NonSuicidalGuy could jump off the cliff.
  • It is impossible that NonSuicidalGuy will hit the ground.

Isn't that a logical mistake, though? Fow that to be correct, it must be that NonSuicidalGuy will hit the ground if and only if he chooses to jump off the cliff.

Comment author: NNOTM 10 April 2014 01:26:18AM *  2 points [-]

Working links on yudkowsky.net and acceleratingfuture.com:

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism The Meaning That Immortality Gives to Life

Comment author: hxka 23 June 2014 09:42:10PM 1 point [-]