2mo ago

Jim Miller puts the cart FAR before the horse

www.lesswrong.com Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer — LessWrong

Our universe is probably a computer simulation created by a paperclip maximizer to map the spectrum of rival resource‑grabbers it may encounter while…

This is unironically the most interesting accidental showcase of their psyche I've seen 😭 all the comments saying this is a convincing sim argument when half of the points for it are not points

Usually their arguments give me anxiety but this is actually deluded lol

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We probably live in a simulation with the purpose of producing the best anime. This is why we are living in an age with so much anime and with so many people who are interested in anime. The anime maximizing AI is simulating all kinds of scenarios from abiogenesis to a prolific anime industry. Most possible scenarios of life evolving from its first forms would not lead to the development of an anime industry, which is why it would be improbable for us to exist in a world with anime, if not for the fact that the simulated scenarios without anime in them are dropped and not simulated further.
- But wait, the best(*) animes came out in the 90s, early 00s. What does that mean? Is the simulation running out of juice?
  (*) details of my anime evaluation function are confidential and proprietary
  
  Sorry folks, but our iteration is about to be unplugged unless someone releases a proper sequel to Amagi Brilliant Park real soon. Legal anime streaming services herald the end times.

We’re likelier to be in a simulation run by whoever creates many simulations.
would love to ask these dorks "what is the event space of this probability distribution" and "have you heard of a category error"
- @Seminar2250 @visaVisa dude read like half of an Iain M Banks book and failed to understand any of it
  
  That's basically the Rationalist story tbh. Read banks, it went right over their head, and now they see hostile Minds around every corner.
- The funniest thing was the "reasons that this thesis might not be true" and the reasons were infinitely simpler and arguably stronger than the points for it that bordered on schizophrenic like: "We don't live in a simulation" and "we won't create a paperclip maximizer"

Only rationalists (and possibly Chat-GPT) have the spark of life. The rest of us? Unfortunately we're computationally efficient p-zombies. Mere cardboard cutouts designed to give flavor text to motivate the main characters.
Remember not to offer player characters any SP Potions, that was last universe when we were in the RPG universe!
- Actually, as some of the main opponents of the would-be AGI creators, us sneerers are vital to the simulation's integrity.
  Also, since the simulator will probably cut us all off once they've seen the ASI get started, by delaying and slowing down rationalists' quest to create AGI and ASI, we are prolonging the survival of the human race. Thus we are the most altruistic and morally best humans in the world!

The space of possible evolved biological minds is far smaller than the space of possible ASI minds
Achkshually, Yudkowskian Orthodoxy says any truly super-intelligent minds will converge on Expected Value Maximization, Instrumental Goals, and Timeless-Decision Theory (as invented by Eliezer), so clearly the ASI mind space is actually quite narrow.
- Ackshually, my metric gives 0 measure to ASI minds and 1 measure to meat sac minds, therefore mu({bio bois}) >> mu({ASI})
- If that's true then how has he maintained whatever passes for his career in Sci-fi whining these days?

Back in my edgy atheist era I found the ontological argument in apologetics to be compelling, though not terribly convincing. And here I thought they would content themselves reinventing Pascal's wager. Now let me see if I can find one of those copypasta about the best conceivable plate of nachos.
- Ah but not everyone's taste is the same, therefore the best conceible plate of nachos is made worse by existing, because it can then be confronted to people's preferences instead of staying in the platonic realm!
  
  A plate of nachos infused with diamondoid nanomachines that stimulate your oral nerves in whatever way you personally prefer.

trying to process this post is giving me a headache, so I am giving up. Here, have this:
cart FAR
oh that's what CFAR is short for.
alt: hehe. fart car

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