Mark Neyer

Friendly yet highly disagreeable. Wildly open minded yet deeply opinionated. Ex Google, Facebook, &c &c.

Memoir out soon:

[Mark Neyer @apxhard]

"Good" is a vector pointing from t=0 to the distant future. You evolved drives and instincts to approximate it. You can't measure it b/c you don't have access to the future. If you don't think it's real, you're going to get yourself killed, either as an individual or group.

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@SpeedWatkins can't you do a cross product here? Use each meta-ethical theory to rank the other meta-ethical theories in terms of how 'good' they are

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@lukeburgis if people have any amount of freedom, many of them will make a mess of their lives, and others will be born into those messes

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@SpencrGreenberg the idea that 'ethics' means anything in a society lacking belief in objective morality

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

i may be a simple country robot, but it seems to me a major reason establishment parties are losing control of their countries might be that they're not doing what their constituents want them to do

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@punk6529 It's just pretentious. It's triteness, playacting as profundity.

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@jeremykauffman the end result of the "veil of ignorance" philosophy is people intentionally being ignored about identity

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@paulg @Noahpinion - we can only let in so many people
- therefore, we should let in the most capable people

how is that hypocritical?

is it possible that you benefit from lower wages in general and this is informing how you view immigration?

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Why I no longer identify as a rationalist.

https://t.co/7D78M7s8Fp

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@Romy_Holland yup

if you wanted to oppress minorities, the best way to do it is tell them the whole country is rigged against them, better not try

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@robinhanson Play is a learning instinct. Everyone is ultimately controlled by some philosophical beliefs; the purpose of philosophy is to help you better understand the cage you inevitably construct around your own thinking patterns.

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@justalexoki bitcoin

sorry had to say it

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@meadandjuniper in short, it would be "taking two different perspectives, removing their 'clothes', getting them as close as possible, and letting them naturally produce a new perspective'

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I wrote this out a few years ago

"if you have two worldviews that line up together in ways that are compatible, if you’ve built enough trust with the other party to fully expose your worldviews to each other, if you both accept each other as meaningful and valid and worth considering, you can end up with a unique worldview which is the product of both parent worldviews.

https://t.co/kOZDo8AEYa

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@antoniogm you might appreciate this one

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Latest substack post, arguing the sabbath solves a computational problem.

https://t.co/1j4p3KIbGW

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In the year 2030, youtube preview images will simply be pairs of eyes expressing bewilderment

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@Grummz AI does a great job pointing the finger back at us, and saying “ you have no way to prove you are conscious either.” As if the shared philosophy of the west is incapable of recognizing the reality that we are conscious.

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I think the right conclusion is that language is inherently value-laden. It was obvious beforehand that language contains all possible things you could say. The question is whether what you said was worth reading.

What wasn’t obvious is that just training on all this text seems to have trained the model on a decent approximation of what humans actually value. That’s how they’re able to actually answer questions, they need to be able to give the most valuable answer, and they seem to do a decent job of it.

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@t_blom This is the problem I’ve been working on. Prototype here.

https://t.co/akHIXRNZeK