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  • I agree with both, this guy and Yudkowsky.

    The first half of the video is great. Completely agree, stop the harm now. Stop the CEOs, stop the naive techno-optimists.

    The second half has a lot of strawmen. Let me give you an example:

    He takes the 2027 reports Solar Powered robot machines maintenance crew (which is very futuristic and far fetched) and in the next statement taktes the “a blade of grass is a self replicating factory” and acts like Yudkowsky says the grass maintains the machines.

    Yudkowsky’s argument is that if AI wanted to kill us it would’nt need the robots. Biology has perfected self replication for a long time. Make some humans do your CRISPR gene tech for you (thanks gig economy). Engineering a stronger moscito with a neuro toxin is not something I understand as impossible. Our biology is very capable of folding all kinds of proteins if given the correct instructions. You don’t need complex robot arms to (accidentally) kill humans. Our society is extremely fragile in thousands of ways.

    If you manage to kill specific bugs we die, if you accelerate algee growth a lot we die. If you get enough carcoinogens into the food chain we die. If you engineer super resistant bacteria we die. If you rapidly deplete the ozon layer we die, if you disable the earth’s magnetic field we die.

    The point is: If you build something that is smarter than you (in any way) and that has some form of agency, it will outsmart you and beat you. Don’t build it.



  • But it is possible to negotiate with Russia. Just do it in two stages: Make a show of force first, and only then have dialogue. The negotiations between President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that helped to end the Cold War could not have taken place had Reagan not first exploited the weaknesses of the U.S.S.R. by exerting heavy military and economic pressure, including by supporting groups and countries that were challenging the Soviets all over the world, like the Polish Solidarity movement and the Afghan ​​​mujahedeen. This two-stage approach did the trick: When the Kremlin elite realized that they were too weak to break Reagan’s determination they began to negotiate.

    I can’t believe anyone here read and understood this paragraph and then celebrates this. You guys do know what the mujahedeen went on to do, right? Right? Not even talking about instrumentalising tens of thousands of young humans to organise terror in a foreign country. Just the blowback should be enough to deter anyone from repeating that shit. That fucker just said: “yeah fuck the women in Afghanistan, at least in the 70s we showed the commies who’s boss”

    And don’t come at me with the “Just do the game-theory zero sum game without the externalities then.”

    e: typo





  • Ich hab mal gehört dass Zeugen Jehovas absichtlich so einen Stand betreiben wo sie zumeist angepöbelt werden. Die Konvertierungsrate ist nicht sonderlich hoch, aber die negative Erfahrung schweißt die Zeugen mehr zusammen. Ein defensives Meme, kein offensives.

    Vllt ist das bei Redpill/Alpha/Pickup… Kreisen was ähnliches. Das negative Feedback ist das Ziel. Wenn die gute Beziehugnstipps geben würden dann würde sich die Gemeinschaft selbst zerstören, dann hätten wir das Problem nicht.




  • Ich war letztes jahr in Indien auf einer Hochzeit. Ich habe die Sitten nicht ganz durchblickt, aber mir wurde gesagt ich soll jetzt dem Kerl der das Pferd herumführt Trinkgeld zustecken. Der Bankomat spuckt dort nur 500 Rupien Scheine aus (ca 5€) - die größten Scheine die dort existieren. Der Mann hatte sichtlich Panik als ich ihm den Schein geben wollte, hat sich umgesehen und wurde nervös.

    Später habe ich erfahren dass das eine Kasten Sache war, der durfte den von mir nicht annehmen. Das Kastensystem wurde offiziell 1948 abgeschafft. Wir müssen Feminismus leben.