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I, for one, am suspicious. Gwern's posting of old articles from his site (which are nonetheless articulate, intelligent, and interesting) makes me think that t
by perturbation 13y ago
I, for one, am suspicious. Gwern's posting of old articles from his site (which are nonetheless articulate, intelligent, and interesting) makes me think that this is step 437 of a 21352 part plan that ends with him as Emperor of the Moon, laughing as he abuses the escape from Earth's gravity well to extract utility via threat of kinetic bombardment.
To paraphrase Arthur Weasley: "Never trust anyone if you can't see where they keep their utility function."
- gwern 13y agoPerturbation, I am hurt by your comments. What did I ever do to deserve such well-founded paranoia?
- Eliezer 13y agoWhat is non-well-founded paranoia? Is it when you think there's a conspiracy behind the conspiracy behind the conspiracy... and so on indefinitely?
- pjscott 13y agon+1 conspiracies are strictly less likely than n conspiracies, for obvious reasons. There's got to be some length of the conspiracy chain beyond which you're forced to assume that either (a) you've postulated too many conspiracies, or (b) there's a conspiracy whose main goal is the creation of ridiculously long chains of conspiracies behind other conspiracies, and it's doing a good job.
- urbit 13y agoHey, wait! That's my plan. By the way, I don't think there's anything wrong at all with bribing early adopters. Just sayin'...