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Tidy your workspace at the end of the day. Seriously, thanks for the agitation. Ditto Oligopsony. And also, hearing your description of that moment when you saw Moloch… made me immediately think of this scene from Metropolis.

I could only come up with two:. Prometheus — Intelligibility Not the fact that the universe follows laws, but the fact that those laws can be deciphered, and expressed in formulas and algorithms and trends. The fact that the universe is not a black box or total chaos, but something that can be comprehended by the human mind. Imhotep — Artifice The fact that things can be built. The fact that in small areas, entropy can temporarily be overcome. The fact that matter can be acted upon in ways that add order.

The fact that people can make personal sacrifices where the benefits mostly accrue to other people. The fact that people express gratitude for this and track reputation.

The power of making and keeping promises, encouraging people to do so, punishing traitors and in extreme cases even punishing traitors who defect to your side.

Binding the Fenris Wolf is still a big win! Thank you for this. It is beautiful and awe-inspiring and reweaving the way I think about the world. And so, in return for it, I will make you zeugmas and smile!

This post and various other things that have happened to me lately are leading me to rethink the oft-repeated contrast between nature and technology. And I thought the best way to counteract these alternatives would be to simply stop building AIs, and let the laws of nature guide us instead. We started out with single-celled life, and those cells learned to coordinate with one another to make multicellular organisms.

We started out with bacteria invading cells, but they learned to coordinate with one another and we got mitochondria. We started out with every man for himself, but we learned to coordinate with each other, and we got societies. Based on these examples, Coordination seems to be a very powerful God, who is perhaps at war with the other Gods you named. And so your post leads me to wonder: what are the conditions under which Coordination wins, and what are the conditions under which Moloch wins?

I assume they collaborate sometimes, e. Maybe Coordination wins when he aligns himself with Moloch? Ah Love! Edit: oh wait you addressed Coordination as a god by mentioning Elua, and tons of previous commenters have talked about Elua. See for example: wireheading, and the link I gave above to Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. See also the Fun Theory sequence and Value is Fragile. I see Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect as a good example, because it shows that people can try really hard to make an FAI and still get it really really wrong.

If I really had any part in that decision, I am going to stick it right near the top of my achievements list. Good luck! Also, I think you and I might have different aesthetic associations with niceness and happiness and flowers although you remain my favorite flower photographer. I have no doubt I can get details from Forbes. The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage. What a lovely thing a rose is!

He walked past the couch to the open window, and held up the drooping stalk of a moss-rose, looking down at the dainty blend of crimson and green. It was a new phase of his character to me, for I had never before seen him show any keen interest in natural objects. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance.

But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers. Percy Phelps and his nurse looked at Holmes during this demonstration with surprise and a good deal of disappointment written upon their faces. He had fallen into a reverie, with the moss-rose between his fingers.

It had lasted some minutes before the young lady broke in upon it. Elua is not Coordination; Coordination is merely one way we can hold off Moloch along with surplus resources, physical limitations, and the fact that everyone hates Moloch, as mentioned in the post. As for where coordination comes from, consider your example of multicellular life.

In joining together into a larger organism, they sacrifice this sole value and restrain their division so as to allow the whole to survive, thus gaining an edge over organisms which do not unite. Roughly the same process explains human societies. I feel the need to plug my Technology will destroy human nature essay, where I basically talked about a part of the same thing, and about various physical limits that are currently stopping us from racing to the bottom but which technology will eventually overcome.

Any takers? A feeling of intense and crushing religious terror at the concept indicates only that you are still sane. Best estimate? And he was always very clear that it is in no way certain that the Transcendent force will win in the end, whether in the case of an individual or the cosmos. To orient yourself towards transcendence you need a spiritual center which is capable of effecting change without being changed itself.

It seems like human values typically fall victim to regression to the mean; before this post I conceived of this in terms of humans imitating one another. That is, most humans want to follow some sort of social standard, so they strive to be at least as moral as the average person.

Iterate this process, and everything eventually degrades to complete immorality. I assume Evola is writing about something similar to this? Pretty much, though going into Revolt Against the Modern Wolrd with a head fullof game theory will absolutely give you mental whiplash. His perspective is very difficult to coprehend from a modern perspective already so anything you can do to shorten the inferrential difference is good. One of the problems he illustrates is the fragmentation of the sciences, or more precisely their languages.

An alchemist a mason a knight and a priest all spoke with the same symbolic alphabet which allowed them to see one another as part of one larger worldview and understand each others parts in it. You may be interested in this piece , arguing for exactly that having happened for a number of things over the last century.

Conversely, morals have improved greatly in other ways over the past centuries and are still improving. I would claim as obvious that we are incredibly unlikely to pick that ideal initially.

A really great opinion of Evola:. They could also run faster, or slower, than real time. But they were still human, and unable to operate effectively outside human constraints.

Take a human being and bolt on extensions that let them take full advantage of Economics 2. Their eventual actions are driven by value systems that we no longer understand, and that are thus sufficiently mysterious as to allow the author to decide that the Vile Offspring refrain from destroying us.

We should not depend on having a similar narrative protection in real life. I had a similar thought, but in Blindsight, gur nyvraf unq arire nf sne nf jr xabj orra pbafpvbhf gb ortva jvgu. I think this only gives you the short-term advantage, because now the Quiverfull movement is also selecting for retention and resistance to your memes. I have more opinions, perhaps I will sort them into a post at More Right or something, because this is becoming a wall of text squished into the thin column of a comment space.

Note Amish retention rates improved dramatically over the 20th century despite virtually no attempt to water it down to make it more attractive. Retention rates for new religious movements seem terrible in general but some combination of selection pressure, increasing sense of venerability, and differential breeding has made the Amish very much more successful than you would have expected in But there should be empirical data available for the Amish, so you could use that to figure out what to set the decay factor to.

Would be more interesting to run it for the Amish low rate of defection than the Quiverfulls high rate of defection. Maybe we need an atheist religion or two? My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Law, For all who have been broken by unfeeling avarice, Their footsteps ring upon the earth, to serve the wicked notice, Justice is marching on. Chorus Glory, glory, Justice marches! Glory, glory, we will be free, Glory, glory, hear the footfalls!

Justice is marching on. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war.

Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underestimate it emotional appeal. Ok, Orwell is taking it too far towards his kinky but not unusual personal preference. Still, we must consider the general qualities of this aesthetic, and the lasting demand for them. Yeah, the song is from a science fiction universe I have slowly cooking, where a monarchic nation is born in a slave revolt. I wanted to blend Reactionary and Progressive doctrines and got someplace very, very strange.

A non-theistic religion, descended ultimately from New England Puritans, whose doctrine is Progressivism. You could also claim Objectivism or Nietzscheans.

I was hoping no one would notice a little bit of self-editing I needed to keep the theme consistent. Those are the actual expressed values of the supermajority of people, I see no reason why a CEV would not implement them, and it is hard enough just living in a world where those values are shared by most human beings — having a totalitarian omnipotent dictator with those values would be about the worst imaginable outcome as far as I can see, far worse than mere human extinction.

This comment only adds to my terror of CEV. This seems obvious to both Andrew and many nrx folks despite evident object level disagreements. C E V extrapolates volition. Unless you think that the current state of affairs is a result of everyone having perfect information, the current state of affairs is probably not the place to start looking for CEV. CEV is meant to preserve human values. Most humans value things that are by my reckoning utterly abhorrent.

The basic drive to persecute members of an out-group may well have a hardwired biological basis — certainly it seems likely to me that it does. Those values are all perfectly coherent — they can all exist together without any contradiction.

I think it far, far, more likely that it would lead to the opposite of that. Either CEV would preserve current human values, in which case I should oppose it because current human values are, for the most part, evil; or it would destroy current human values, in which case I should oppose it because it would destroy things I value; or it would not do anything at all, in which case why build it at all? The Yudkowskyite argument seems to be that it would somehow only preserve nice values and not nasty ones, but with no explanation as to how this would be — and if there is some outside criterion for which values are nice and which are nasty, then that, rather than CEV, should be used from the start.

I would be unimaginably terrified of anything implementing CEV getting any kind of power, if I thought there was even the tiniest chance of it happening. But this argument can be taken to an extreme, it seems, where you feel intense empathy for all forms of life, including individual bacteria. Where do you stop feeling empathy? I also think that if we try to make human values consistent, we will get something that looks absolutely nothing like normal human values, because normal human values are inconsistent.

Considering that normal human values have kept society going for a few millenia now, I expect this to be a feature rather than a bug. Trying to make human values consistent with each other is part of reason as a memetic immune disorder. Humans did not evolve rational morals that can be worked into a logical, consistent system. We evolved morals that assured our survival in a specific environment. Taking our values and letting them run wild, in a context very different from our ancestral environment, typically leads to disastrous results.

Consider, for example, the human desire to eat a lot of fat and sugar. If the truck actually moved at miles per hour, it would take turns too fast and crash. But the conditions of the environment assure that would never happen.

MugaSofer, thanks for the link; I just read it now. And that thus this is a feature, not a bug, of CEV. In essence, you appear to be using a progressive metavalue-set by which you judge other value-sets on their niceness which is just how close they are to your own progressive values.

However, the fact that you may find the values extrapolated via CEV abhorrent does not necessarily have any real bearing upon the correctness of CEV as a method. In fact, CEV may be the utility function for a FAI that maximises the utility of humanity in general after the singularity, even if you find its values to be morally wrong. PS: This is my first time commenting here, so I am sorry if this comes off in the wrong way or else betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of something really basic.

Darcey, I share your views on CEV. Take extrapolating desires: the opposite of this would be to do no extrapolation, and just go with the morality of current-day people. Well, in that case you get exactly what Andrew Hickey described in his original comment — a totalitarian omnipotent dictator that punishes people for being different.

Would extrapolating desires help? Andrew suggests that things like wanting to persecute homosexuals are terminal values that do not change with more information, but we also know that the tendency to persecute others is associated with a psychological tendency to dehumanize them and see them as fundamentally different.

Another problem with not extrapolating desires is that, as I alluded to earlier, it would essentially freeze moral growth and allow us to go on with all kinds of things that we might eventually come to consider moral atrocities.

Extrapolating your wish to be a better person may add considerable distance. If we extrapolate out far enough, we may end up with a Power, or something else too powerful and alien for your present-day self to comprehend. It probably is a good reason to prevent people from destroying present-day cheesecakes.

That said, the CEV document also explicitly mentions the possibility that despite all of this, the extrapolated desire of humanity would still end up creating a terrible world because most people were just that selfish. I think there must come a time when the last decision is made and the AI set irrevocably in motion, with the programmers playing no further special role in the dynamics. Then what? Give up entirely? Actually, even that would be consistent, if it consistently obeyed the even-odd-day rule… If human values really were inconsistent in a logical sense, that would mean that our behavior would be totally random, since inconsistent axioms allow you to derive any conclusion.

Kaj, thank you for this comment about CEV. I shall go and think about it. On a chair. By a window. As the sky grows dark and the air becomes cool.

I do believe this is showing your fahrenheit bias. IQ73, on the other hand, is just above a moron technically, original definition , so quite average. Are these people essentially walking vegetables, with minimal brain function, but still-functioning autonomic nervous systems? In Fahrenheit, the temperature goes from a bit below zero to a bit above !

In Celsius, the temperature goes from somewhere around to somewhere around 41! Renounce your Jacobin insanity and return to units that make sense in the world! Doubt someone five standard deviations below the mean would be able to take an IQ test. Other than that the rest of the world uses it.

Is it built into the metric system somehow? This implied a practical method to measure, e. Linnaeus however, as a scientist, had the original Celsius scale turned, so that 0 zero was marked for the freezing-point and for the boiling-point of water for his instrument Fig. By that Linnaeus got a thermometer better suited for biological conditions.

Stick to straight Kelvins: works even better in the scientific formulas, and no negative numbers ever. Fine print: Actually, negative temperatures can arise in obscure situations only tenuously related to our ordinary notion of temperature, and these cases make you realize that what you actually want to measure is not temperature at all, but coolness, in inverse kelvins, or even better in inverse units of energy.

However, these matters are outside the scope of this comment. In particular, it predates the actual historical Jacobin Club by nearly half a century! But what does Elua correspond to? Is it something you hope will exist in the future, or do you think there is now a force we can call our own? Which is why I think Elua is another trapper, not a gardener.

Moloch may promise us power, but what is power but a means to satisfy our desires? Elua is the god of free love? Elua may have soft eyes, but he demands a price as well. Moloch asks us to sacrifice love for power.

What does Elua ask us to sacrifice for love? Well, you could argue that individual humans are exerting a selection pressure, by deliberately choosing things in line with their values. And not just any system, but one that fulfills all of the scientific definitions of a living organism: irritability, self-sustenance, self-repair, and reproduction.

He had not just changed the way his tribe and the nearby tribes lived, he had given birth to a vast psychic organism, a colony creature, a hive mind that twists and absorbs the lugal and his tribe just as thoroughly as it twists and absorbs the zeks.

I love when that happens. Corporations are people, my friend! That picture of the Luxor obelisk and its caption together represent the best instance of comic timing in a blog post I can remember ever seeing.

Also, I really, really like your depiction of Elua, here and elsewhere. Now there is a god I can get behind. Heh heh. Any preexisting deity or equivalent, which therefore is both more powerful than AND not subordinate to humanity, is a serious risk and requires extermination.

I felt the same way about my parents a quarter century ago, and still feel that way about coordinated groups of people numbering greater than about six, so I acknowledge that this may not be the most mature approach to being outgunned. You say that the god of humans is the god of Love.

Why promote one emotion over its mirror image? Whence this symmetry-breaking? Everyone who studies human history and society — like you and Ginsburg — looks around in confused horror at all the violence and brutality and suffering. They typically conclude that human suffering is some kind of accident or mistake or coordination problem. Nope, sorry.

Human suffering is caused by human hatred. Humans, almost without exception, accept as a terminal and transcendent value the destruction and oppression of other humans. Go back a few posts and reread the stuff about Arthur Chu. In particular, reread the comments by Chu himself.

Now consider two theories:. He hates rationalist types because according to his philosophy, such people are the ones who cause human suffering e. In my view, hatred actually has two disastrous consequences.

The first is the simple fact that hatred causes humans to hurt each other, or at least causes humans to fail to act ethically towards one another. That one seems inevitable, since hatred is a fundamental human emotion.

The second is that hatred obscures our understanding of the world. Since hatred is such a difficult emotion to justify in a social setting, our conscious minds needs to perform all kinds of weird conceptual distortions in order to make ourselves look like reasonable, ethical people.

These distortions cause all kinds of confusion and chaos in our sociopolitical system. The civil discourse is led systematically away from ideas that could actually help to improve society and towards ideas that hate-mongers have developed to justify hatred.

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