An_Amazing_Login

Hey people!

I'm "new" here, having spent the last 2 years reading and following the "core" material. I have no clue how I got here. I remember following an idle path of exploration and suddenly finding this beautiful place where it seems like there are true adults.

I'm a young adult constantly amazed at the scope of this world, a composition student that has somehow gained (mild) success (read: gotten paid anything at all), I've used basic rationality tools when deciding if my
(then) relationship was worth it, found out that it wasn't, I didn't accept the answer, tried again when everything in that relationship was on fire and managed to leave relatively unharmed.... (read more)

I'm going to come clean here: Your post has made me so ANGRY that I have to respond. Usually I'd leave it be, to conserve resources needed for a hostile world and because the chance that you're being intellectually honest is not high enough. Politics is the mindkiller; You are a transphobe, and it shows. There is also no way for me to argue that you couldn't just respond with: "He thinks he's a woman! He must be crazy, pay no heed to him!" (for outsiders sake, I'm a trans-woman)

But honestly? You argue for my existance being an invalid way of human life. You argue that everyone sees me not as... (read 1154 more words →)

Ouch.

This post is very frightening to me in that I had not viscerally understood just how far off we are from solving FAI. Are we really (probably) in the area of before solving the problem, invent Calculus? Is that Hyperbole? Or worse? Also, the post also gives me hope that the problem of FAI is solvable (hopefully tractably!). When i was at first shown the problems that arise from just trying something, it felt like no one had any attack whatsoever. Now i think i understand better that no one really knows anything, but they do have some sort of an attack on it. I'd feel pretty safe if one could formalise... (read more)