RationalDino

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by RationalDino 3y ago
If you're interested in that topic, reading through the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072218 is a good place to start.
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by RationalDino 3y ago
When someone says that building ramps enables wheelchair users to get into buildings with stairs, would you be the person who argues that isn't actually enabling because they can just pay someone to carry them up the stairs? That clear
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I wouldn't hazard a guess. But it is absolutely true that ADHD can go along with inattention when people are talking to you, which can cause misunderstandings. My daughter particularly struggles with that when she reads, and will often
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Your reference to "barking orders" shows a major misunderstanding. The demands we face may not be simply barked orders. They may instead be reasonable requests to work on the tasks assigned in the sprint, rather than helping out a
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I think that "seem to accept authority happily" is exactly how it looks to a neuroatypical person. With emphasis on "SEEM". Autism and ADHD both bring a lack of executive control. A lack of executive control limits our a
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by RationalDino 3y ago
The historical context for this was the belief that those in positions of authority were put there by God's will. And so to question the rightness of them being placed over you was to question God. With the most extreme form of this be
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by RationalDino 3y ago
That presenter eventually learned not to make that mistake. His recent videos all include links to the original videos exactly so that people who want additional context can get it. But he didn't do that back then. However, in my exper
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by RationalDino 3y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/24/sam-altman-wants-the-gov... shows the same conclusion from several months ago. However Elon Musk has openly worried about AI for a number of years. He even got a girlfriend
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by RationalDino 3y ago
There comes a point where a taxonomy of fallacies is just splitting hairs. But these two are ones that I would choose to distinguish, even though they have a lot of sympathy. The point of a controversy bait-and-switch is to draw attention a
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I am cautiously optimistic that this is indeed possible. But the kind of AI that can achieve it has to itself be capable of what it is helping defend us from. Which suggests that limiting the capabilities of AI in the name of AI safety is n
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by RationalDino 3y ago
It happens to all of us by accident. That's fine. But by the time you've built yourself a major brand based on doing this over and over again, your repeated protestations about "just being misunderstood" wear thin. There
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Thank you for that correction and history. I got it from Tetlock, and didn't realize that his applying it to intellectuals wasn't original to him. I also previously knew about it from Archilochus. Regardless, it is a useful insigh
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by RationalDino 3y ago
As other comments said, this is not just an appeal to authority. He really is an authority. However, having established real authority, he then uses it to convey ideas which are less supported. https://youtu.be/eKwSDqJAum8?s
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by RationalDino 3y ago
What you are experiencing is called "the controversy bait-and-switch". Peterson is a master of it. What he does is say something designed to look like a dog whistle to get people upset. Then when challenged on it, he say something
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Your question embeds a logical fallacy. You're challenging a statement of the form, "A causes B. I don't like B, so we shouldn't do A." You are challenging it by asking, "How does not doing A prevent B?" C
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by RationalDino 3y ago
Average reading level consensus from https://readabilityformulas.com/readability-scoring-system.p... is "college graduate". Most people read well below their theoretical grade level. For example about half of high
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by RationalDino 3y ago
I am afraid that this will just lead down the path to what https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741 was mocking. We're dictating solutions to today's threats, leaving tomorrow to its ow
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by RationalDino 3y ago
The hedgehog/fox classification isn't mine, it is Philip Tetlock's. As is the data about pundits showing what the outcome is. See https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/tetlock/ . But I agree that it
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by RationalDino 3y ago
This relates to one of the topics I want to get to on https://rationaldino.substack.com/ but which will take a while. There is a very simple litmus test to tell which are likely to fade, versus which aren't. How certai