We have a few Wikipedians who hang out here, right? Is a preprint by Yud and co. a sufficient source to base an entire article on “Functional Decision Theory” upon?
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There’s a “critique of functional decision theory”… which turns out to be a blog post on LessWrong… by “wdmacaskill”? That MacAskill?!
The collapse of FTX also caused a reduction in traffic and activity of practically everything Effective Altruism-adjacent
Uh-huh.
I think Eliezer Yudkowsky & many posts on LessWrong are failing at keeping things concise and to the point.
The replies: “Kolmogorov complexity”, “Pareto frontier”, “reference class”.
“Kolmogorov complexity” lol ow god they are just tossing terms around again. Kolmogorov has nothing todo with being mega verbose.
solving the halting problem by talking it to death
the CS experts on the orange site and LW: “how can there be a halting problem when I refuse to ever stop?”
and have clearly been read a non-trivial amount by Elon Musk (and probably also some by JD Vance).
Look, i already wasn’t donating, no need to make it worse.
The lead-in to that is even “better”:
This seems particularly important to consider given the upcoming conservative administration, as I think we are in a much better position to help with this conservative administration than the vast majority of groups associated with AI alignment stuff. We’ve never associated ourselves very much with either party, have consistently been against various woke-ish forms of mob justice for many years, and have clearly been read a non-trivial amount by Elon Musk (and probably also some by JD Vance).
“The reason for optimism is that we can cozy up to fascists!”
You might think that this review of Yud’s glowfic is an occasion for a “read a second book” response:
Yudkowsky is good at writing intelligent characters in a specific way that I haven’t seen anyone else do as well.
But actually, the word intelligent is being used here in a specialized sense to mean “insufferable”.
Take a stereotypical fantasy novel, a textbook on mathematical logic, and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Ah, the book that isn’t actually about kink, but rather an abusive relationship disguised as kink — which would be a great premise for an erotic thriller, except that the author wasn’t sufficiently self-aware to know that’s what she was writing.
Gah. I’ve been nerd sniped into wanting to explain what LessWrong gets wrong.
