Daniel Houck

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@gurauki @Dexerto If a random employee puts their foot in their mouth like this on company time the company should correct it. I don’t think Microsoft has?

But yeah the developers of the game definitely don’t agree given how they keep trying to make private servers better at every scale.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@gurauki @Dexerto Microsoft is a member of the ESA. I don’t know if they are on the IP Working Group but the ESA’s job is to represent Microsoft (as well as other companies), and they should not be saying nonsense like this about their members.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@korzewarrior @Dexerto The linked article mentions California AB 1921, the Protect Our Games Act, twice. There are other proposals in other jurisdictions but they would have taken you more than a single click to learn about.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@BicycleSocials @KelseyTuoc @bobbyfijan @GaryWinslett Not much. Almost all the martyrdom accounts are less well supported than the core facts, and IIRC the few that do seem likely don’t include a chance to avoid it by recanting, or are for people who would not have personal knowledge.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@UnnaturalOrder @waitbutwhy But isn’t the theoretical maximum efficiency of that between 40 and 50 percent? That’s at least within an order of magnitude of antimatter, unlike almost anything else, but still worse.

It probably comes down to how hard it is to store and transport antimatter vs. a black hole.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@archerships @Aella_Girl Or, we should, but only when we have a clue what we’re doing. Which we don’t.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@archerships @Aella_Girl * There are costs to delay, yes. They are *so much* less than the costs of a bad AI takeoff.
* Mythos/Fable probably should not be banned, certainly not in the arbitrary way the current admin did. That doesn’t mean we should keep advancing capabilities.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@archerships @Aella_Girl Well that last paragraph doesn’t work as a metric. How many people had been killed/injured by nuclear bombs before August 1945?

We are very actively making them more powerful, and keep ignoring the lines we had said we would never cross.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@NomadProduct @Aella_Girl Usually Aella doesn’t explain but in this case she did: https://t.co/gCxk5WYTts
And forcibly violating agency was the point, so it can’t be avoiding the question.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

idk man i didn't even notice it was juneteenth. i was at a barbeque and two ppl were claiming they agreed about everything on ethics so i was like, hm what about questions that involve forcibly changing someone's mental state to be more positive, but for something positive we find to be really negative? would you disagree on that? I was tryin to think of an example that would be real succinct; the classic one is would u make a sex robot slave really into it, but i didn't wanna have to deal with the adidtional questions of generating a new life form or whatever; something about altering an existing life form feels more like it touches on our concept of identity. so i was like ok - so we have to take someone who already exists who we feel sympathy for, who is in a terrible situation, that is relatively isolated in terms of what they can do (like, it has to be systemic; e.g. a single spy caught and tortured clearly would not work because then that involves too much consequentialism or whatever and i don't wanna blur the thought experiment). so like - obviously slavery is the thing to try here. systemic, existing, atrocious, relatively isolated (if only done to a single person).

So I asked them about that scenario, and lo and behold, they did in fact disagree! success! I then asked them to predict how other people would respond and they said 80% of ppl would not vote to make a slave happy. they really valued the 'not violating agency' part. we were all surprised when the result was the reverse and that was it.

idk about ur psychoanalysis i didn't read all that

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@UnnaturalOrder @waitbutwhy Does volume really matter much here? I’d think mass would be much more important and for that all antimatter should be about the same.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@NomadProduct @Aella_Girl Saying that the part where it happens to a random person is irrelevant feels to me like a similar but not identical mistake to saying trolley problem, fat guy on a bridge, and transplant surgeon are all the same thought experiment.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@NomadProduct @Aella_Girl If that were the main point of the hypothetical, it could be worded as “Imagine you are a slave in colonial America…”. Making it a random person usually is supposed to be relevant.

Some butterflies were disclaimed and I bet the rest should be too.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@Aella_Girl (I’m guessing I can; standard thought experiment stuff. I’m still not pushing it because mind control without prior consent is sketchy at best.)

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@Aella_Girl > It doesn't meaningfully change the outcome of their life at all.
Can I also assume no other butterflies?

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@NomadProduct @Aella_Girl Objecting to mind control is taking a stand? Maybe I just xidn’t see the replies you did

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@SpaceWashingMac @ZakMndebele @Aella_Girl That is explicitly disallowed by both the original question and the tweet you are responding to.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@Aella_Girl @TrevorW79137575 I’m surprised at some of the stuff that seems clustered with exhibition/voyerism, and also surprised some of the group sex isn’t closer to that.

[Daniel Houck @daniel_houck]

@Laneless_ Yes, yes, yes, ack. Confirm understanding of TGP. Fin, ack.