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Is the Slack still active? The link to join is not.

2Adam Zerner
It isn't active, sorry. See the update at the top of the post.

This is another reply in this vein, I'm quite new to this so don't feel obliged to read through. I just told myself I will publish this.

I agree (90-99% agreement) with almost all of the points Eliezer made. And the rest is where I probably didn't understand enough or where there's no need for a comment, e.g.:

1. - 8.  agree

9. Not sure if I understand it right - if the AGI has been successfully designed not to kill everyone then why need oversight? If it is capable to do so and the design fails then on the other hand what would our oversight do? I don't... (read more)

2Qumeric
Regarding 9: I believe it's when you are successful enough that your AGI doesn't instantly kill you immediately but it still can kill you in the process of using it. It's in the context of a pivotal act, so it assumes you will operate it to do something significant and potentially dangerous.

is there any society where people are ostracised for not possessing difficult skills?

Depending on what you call "difficult". I think you will try to fit in if 80%+ of your peers know the skill, but OTOH if 80%+ people know have the skill then is it "difficult"?

In gen pop I feel this way about driving cars - some people hate it and have to deal with a lot of stress/anxiety to learn this skills and although they could live without it. But living without it means they can't do some of the things - they have less power.

I'd say then the power motivation (increa... (read more)

1Roman Leventov
Ok, I buy language -- I think indeed, for example in 19th century Russia learning French was a marker of "fitting in" aristocracy, although it was not required for life. But I don't know if there is any such society anymore where some social group tends to learn some language for status reasons only.

I came here for this tip specifically to read Kaj's sequence as well! Used this plugin for now but I hope it becomes a feature.