Is That Your True Rejection? — LessWrong
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It happens every now and then that someone encounters some of my transhumanist-side beliefs—as opposed to my ideas having to do with human rationalit…
x Is That Your True Rejection? — LessWrong Against Rationalization Motivations Social Reality Rationalization Motivated Reasoning Conversation (topic) Rationality Frontpage 189 Is That Your True Rejection? by Eliezer Yudkowsky 6th Dec 2008 4 min read 100 189 It happens every now and then that someone encounters some of my transhumanist-side beliefs—as opposed to my ideas having to do with human rationality—strange, exotic-sounding ideas like superintelligence and Friendly AI. And the one rejects them. If the one is called upon to explain the rejection, not uncommonly the one says, “Why should
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