All of Adam's Comments + Replies

ESY plays Go! Cool! Now I'm super-certain that his Words of Wisdom are the Font of All Knowledge.

Go Eliezer! You rock! Keep doing what you're doing, as it's very interesting and very fun to read!

Actually, maybe you had better tone down the awesomeness of your posts a bit. (Maybe you could do that by not mentioning the Singularity so much.) If you don't tone it down, I fear I'm in danger of careening off into a Super Happy Death Spiral based on your awesomely cool ideas.

Ian C.: Is there any reason in particular that you think that adults are so different from children? I would say that most adults most of the time act pretty childish, though they often couch it in a form that seems more mature.

5Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg)
Agreed. The main difference between adults and children, I think, is that adults are more capable of criticizing their own actions according to a moral framework. But they aren't necessarily inclined to do so. Adults who don't question their own thoughts and actions won't necessarily behave any better than children, just more within social convention, since they've had time to absorb those "rules".

I have to recommend Eliezer's essay on his web site An Intuitive Explanation of Bayesian Reasoning. I am sure that everything on there (yudkowsky.net) is well worth reading, but I haven't gotten to anything else yet.

Great parable, but I don't think things would actually happen like that. If that really happened, a Green would almost certainly see the sky as just as green as a Blue would see it blue. Light underground is probably of substandard quality most of the time, no pigments underground exactly match the color of the sky, there have been experiments that have shown that native speakers of different languages will classify the same color as closer to different colors based on their native language. The Greens and the Blues may have the same language but their per... (read more)

2oconnor663
The Japanese until fairly recently used the word blue to refer both blue and green. The green light on stoplights is still called blue by convention. I've heard stories from people who get confused when their own grandparents talk about colors.
6atorm
Just like we can just say it's cerulean, right?