Dresden Codak vs. Eliezer Yudkowsky?

See the latest update of Dresden Codak ( #9 of the Dark Science series). Does anything about it seem… familiar… to you? As per request, a link has been added to the comic in question.

Another Message from Eliezer Yudkowsky

—–Inline Attachment Follows—– Comments which raise issues that I’ve repeatedly dealt with earlier, as though they were your own amazing original questions, will be deleted. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

A Message From Eliezer Yudkowski

I recently received an email from Eliezer Yudkowski, in reference to a comment of mine which he had deleted. The message, and the content of the comment that precipitated it, follows: You’re welcome to repost if you criticize Coherent Extrapolated Volition specifically, rather than talking as if the document doesn’t exist. And leave off the […]

Recognizing the Obvious

Well, it’s not an issue of Firefox interacting poorly with a CATCHPA, as has happened to me before. LessWrong refuses to register either of the handles Eliezer knows me by. Any handles he’s not familiar with are immediately registered. I always thought the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes ended unrealistically. In reality, the child […]

A Deep And Dark December

I don’t feel like coming up with an original post today, so I’ll just piggyback on these Overcoming Bias threads. What are Robin and Eliezer talking about? Even they don’t seem to have a clear idea, so we’ll have to figure it out for ourselves. To the dictionary! Cynicism: An attitude of scornful or jaded […]

Running Away

Does the concept of Friendly AI somehow drain one’s enthusiasm? Does it cause motivation to dwindle? Does it drive people mad? Or is it just that no progress has been made on even the most basic foundational aspects of FAI, and discussing the subject makes that painfully obvious? Breaking down a complex problem into basic […]

Archival of Dissent

A poster named Faré, with whom I was previously unfamiliar, has made a series of interesting posts on Overcoming Bias. To prevent their loss in case of deletion, I reproduce them below. Note: I have not explicitly been given permission to do so by Faré; the messages appear, with the exception of an introduced link, […]

The Other Shoe

From this comment thread at OB: [bored now. comment deleted.] Comments under that name are no longer permitted. The transition is now complete. For the record, O Moderately Beloved Readers: has Eliezer yet demonstrated that recursive self-improvement is possible, let alone likely? Has he shown that ‘Friendly AI’ is coherent, let alone desirable? Has he […]

Removing the Head, or Destroying the Brain, Part VI

I wish I could say that I was surprised that people continue to fail to see glaring flaws in philosophical arguments. But at this point, I’m used to it. For amusement’s sake, I present a link to a bit of Eliezer’s writings that may actually justify his existence. The script is almost, but not quite, […]

John C. Wright’s Predictions, and The Fool’s Progress

Two things: First, John C. Wright, author of some truly fascinating science- and speculative-fiction, offers some predictions for the future on his Livejournal. This act was inspired by Robert Heinlein’s own speculations in 1950 and later re-examinations of which came true and which were falsified. They are interesting and worth reading, although I have issues […]