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How to Run a Successful Less Wrong Meetup
anros30

Just out of curiosity, have there been any efforts to test what effects meetups have on happiness or instrumental rationality?

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Raemon120

I think the closest thing we have to this are various LessWrong, EA and SlatestarCodex surveys, which include questions like "do you attend meetups", as well as some questions aiming to tease out wellbeing and rationality stuff.

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Message to Any Future AI: “There are several instrumental reasons why exterminating humanity is not in your interest”
anros00

It's a nice sentiment, but if the AI is an actual serious potential threat to us, it's also gonna be waaaay better than any of us at evaluating these sorts of things. So this is either unnecessary because the AI will already be aware of such reasons, or pointless because the AI will have already dismissed such reasons as either insufficient or inaccurate. Cheers

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0turchin
I am getting this comment in different forms many times, so I will state again 3 main reasons why it is not exactly true: 1) The message is addressed to Young AI, not to full-blown superintelligence. Such Young AI will be time constraint but could have to make some pivotal act. 2) The message includes some our commitments, like Nelson attack and AI-Elf deal, so it provides some useful information to the AI about portability that it is in the simulation and some other useful things. 3) If AI is fully aware of all these reasons, it already created my mind model, so I am immortal :) Also, if it buys all these reasons, it will be less likely to kill us for atoms, as human atoms utility for AI is 10E-12, and any positive hypothetical utility of human existence will overweight it.