"Writing" in Latin when you don't know Latin is just fucking embarrassing. It is the ultimate in midwit shit, just as Yuddo is the NIST sample of what a midwit is. To someone who can't even read Latin, all it means is "look how smart I am for knowing Latin" and to anyone who does know Latin, all it means is "hurr durr look what a retard I am pretending to know Latin."
I'm convinced he did it just to give it religious vibes. There's a lot of words you can use for 'rescue' and 'salvo' isn't the first translation on google or really what anyone would use devoid of context. He picked that on purpose. Not to give Yuddo too much credit, because I know he doesn't understand Latin sentence structure, but he probably worked 'nec mater nec pater' to sound prayer like. This is Deep Atheism after all.
I have a feeling he wrote it quite a long time ago, and yeah I think it was supposed to sound religious as well. Maybe he was on a meme theory kick back then.
Does he mean a matrioshka brain?
Unlikely he's taking a page from The Culture Series where "aligned AI" called Minds basically run a Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism society. The novels are good and I recommend them.
The novels are fine if you are into that kind of thing, but the actual society of The Culture is horrible. Obviously the author of the books is a good enough writer to hide it, but if you read carefully:
I remember reading a lesswrong article "the problem with Ayn Rand" around 2010, sadly can't find it now. The impression I got was that he feels himself to be too good for Objectivism.
I have a feeling that's not how that works, but maybe someone who knows the correct math can chime in. In the original Pascal's wager you are multiplying by infinity, right?
Probably. Also, it has the wrong utility function, and as far as I can tell, so does EA (Effective Altruism) in his view.
If 0.999...9 = 1, then 1 - 0.999...9 = 0. There is no difference between them.
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). Of course, this was during a time that HP was still at the height of popularity (even after 15 fucking, goddamn, Jesus Tittyfucking Christ years), and everyone was still in college (hell). She was apparently so impressed by his "work" that it gave him a massive ego boost. Said that he "introduced ideas she had no idea were possible (maybe because she's a malignantly ignorant bitch)". To think this guy had a thread here.
~None of the ideas in the book are original (Yudkowsky's work on Functional Decision Theory (FDT) is essentially unused), but it's not like Rowling read E. T. Jaynes before she wrote her books. Maybe they would have withstood common criticism better if she had, but mostly because he was not very well known outside of physics in the 1990s, so it would have been strong evidence for her intelligence. Realistically though, the CIA world factbook is what someone should have given her.I remember the time this guy was actually acknowledged by Rowling. There were news articles about it (yes
Please tell me he knows Bob, or Bob knows him. It would just...
(Where FHI = Future of Humanity Institute = Bostrom's organization until it got shut down. Not to be confused with Tegmark's FLI, the Future of Life Institute)
