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i love the kind of capable agent that will actually just kill me

@delca This feels like a situation where different levels of abstraction can apply: Obviously "humanity" has sometimes done things (FCKW bans! Miraculously avoided anyone doing human cloning (or IES or wide-spread nuclear fusion)!)

also nothing in the image implies that "humanity" is taken as an atomic entity(?), and AFAIK the MIRI crowd believes international coordination to be fruitless in preventing AI from killing all humans

Technically if you just doveltail you also create an embedded diamond-maximizer

compromise: making Trump Shitposter in Chief

Thoughts about Emily in Paris:

Nice anti-villain story, set in a caricature of a misunderstanding of Paris. Lovely to watch for getting some insight into the mindset of hot women: ~all problems are solved by manipulating social reality (even emotional reality takes a backseat).

Also interesting (for me) to see the seductions going on in the series: mostly good-looking guy game, but also teasing, push-pull (in the specific variant of irreality/irreality-collapse).

And it *is* pretty.

There should[1] be a conservation law in deontology: the amount of rights must be equal to the amount of duties

[1]: Should here in the axiomatic sense

Virtue ethics is just the bounded agent's cry for a larger t

Some people can only act if there are adults in the room. But there often aren't

there are naive millionaires, but there are no naive billionaires

but also the amount of time a broken clock is right has measure zero

corollary: broken clocks are infinitely more accurate than shifted clocks: a broken clock is right twice a day, but a shifted clock is *never* right

In deontic logic, is ~obligation(~x)=permission(x)?

philosophical technique: A is X, B is Y, but there is a continuous transformation from A to B, but there isn't from X to Y, where does the switch occur?

philosophytube followers be pondering the impossibility of white bears in novaya semlya

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