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Self10

Keeps baffling me how much easier having a concept for something makes thinking about it.

Self1-2

What about this one:

"Hivemind" is best characterized as a state of zero adversarial behavior.

Self1-9

"Humanity becomes a hivemind" is the single least dystopic coherent image of the future.

Self32

Illustrative post. The downvotes confuse me.

Self21

Depression is a formidable cognitive specialization.

Self10

There may have been other, unmentioned optimization targets that also need eloquence

Predictions:

  • (75%) Groups who successfully[1] adopt trust technology will economically and politically outcompete the rest of their respective societies rather quickly (less than 10 years).
  • The efficiency gains feasibly up for grabs in the first 15 years compared to statusquo are over 100% (75%) or over 400% (50%).
  • (66%) Society-wide adoption of trustbuilding tech is a practical path / perhaps the only practical path towards sane politics in general and sane AI politics in particular.

The whole gestalt of why this is a huge affordance seems self-evident to me, it's a cognitive weakness of mine to often not know which parts of my thinking need more words written out loud to be legible.

But one intuition is: Regular "natural" human cultures are accidental products sampled from environments where deception-heavy strategies are dominant, and this imposes large deadweight costs on all pursuits of value, including economic value, happiness, friendship, and morality. Explicitly: Most of our cognition goes into deceiving others, and the density of useful acts could be multiple times higher.

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    i.e. build mutual understandings at least to, but ideally surpassing, the point of family-like intimacy / feeling the others as extensions of oneself

Self10

I'm not eloquent enough to express how important I think this is.

Self21

I feel like such intuitions could be developed. - I'm more uncertain where I would use this skill.

Though given how OOD it is there could be significant alpha up for grabs

(Q: Where would X-Ray vision for cluster structures in 5-dimensional space be extraordinarily useful?)

Self10

Hmm. Yeah. It gets difficult to display points with the same XY coordinates and different RGB coordinates

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