I'm going to speak out in favor of discrimination: I can't treat everybody as equals. It's an information-rich world out there, and I don't have time to read o

I'm going to speak out in favor of discrimination: I can't treat everybody as equals. It's an information-rich world out there, and I don't have time to read or learn even a fraction of a percent of what I'd like to. One way I filter is by topic. I maintain a reddit account, but I subscribe to subreddits that interest me. URL acts as another filter--if it starts with news.ycombinator.com/ or overcomingbias.com/, for example, there's a higher probability I want to read it. I apply "author" below these filters. I use reddit's "friend" feature liberally for users with a history of knowledgeable, insightful comments so I can pick them out quickly. On other sites, I just get to know usernames and pay attention to them. PG may have abandoned the "valuable user" highlighting, but I still do it mentally. I'm sure I miss some valuable information that way, but there's not much else I can do but keep donating to SIAI and working on startup ideas until PG and Yudkowsky get together, write an FAI in Arc, and solve all the world's problems.