All of A. Mensch's Comments + Replies

Some suggestions:

  • A large chunk of probability mass
  • Watercolor painting of the end of history
  • An electric car painted by Wassliy Kandinsky
  • A monkey is painting a portrait of Charles Darwin
  • A monkey is explaining something to Charles Darwin
  • Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks!
  • The anatomy of a friendly AI
  • Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler in a loving embrace [if this isn't allowed, substitute Gandhi for Hitler]
  • A painting of a spurious correlation in the style of impressionism
  • Friedrich Nietzsche is shaving his mustache 
  • Sigmund Freud tries LSD for the fi
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Russia doesn't have enough money; carpet bombing civilians is expensive and inefficient

 

Didn't Russia actually use carpet bombing over the past several years in Chechnia and in Syria? If they were willing to do it in those cases I can't imagine money being the limiting factor now... And from what I see so far is consistent with the Russian army switching their strategy more and more towards bombing the enemy into submission like they did in Syria.

Question to Eliezer: would you agree with the gist of the following? And if not, any thoughts on what lead to a strong sense of 'coherence in your worldview' as Vaniver put it?

Vaniver, I feel like you're pointing at something that I've noticed as well and am interested in too (the coherence of Eliezer's worldview as you put it). I wonder if has something to do with not going to uni but building his whole worldview all by him self. In my experience uni often tends towards to cramming lots of facts which are easily testable on exams, with less emphasis on un... (read more)