This also makes sense. I did enjoy all the arguments I got into on the SSC discord. It was formative for me even though I found myself often frustrated when the arguments reached an impasse, often in relation to the desires of the interlocutors.
I'm also a programmer and am very habituated in terms of thinking in algorithms, but when I had my "break", I realized that my beliefs were not working on a very deep level, and I needed something a lot stronger/deeper than rationality to push me out of whatever local extremum I was trapped in.
Re:What is ‘elite overproduction’?
by FeepingCreature on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:05PM
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Hey, if it works for you it's all to the good. :)
(I think we've run out of disagreements. Good talk?)
good talk! check my about page for a discord if you wanna chat again
Re:What is ‘elite overproduction’?
by FeepingCreature on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:18PM
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Thanks but note, I almost entirely hang out on irc. Don't wanna link here but I'm sure you can guess the channel :P
(Woe! A deeper rift than even incompatible epistemologies: incompatible chat clients!)
ahaha classic... I haven't used IRC since my college days, unfortunately I don't think I can support another chat client tab :P (the software i'm working with takes up way too much memory smdh)
(Also, AI X-Risk makes a lot more sense if you're already habituated to thinking of the mind in terms of algorithm. 40% programmers: not a coincidence.)