I'm from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA — LessWrong
I came from a parallel Earth that successfully coordinated around maintaining a higher level of ability to solve coordination problems. Ask me anything. With Eliezer’s blessing, I’ve quoted the resultant discussion below, leaving out threads that were repeats or didn’t go anywhere. Guy Srinivasan: Did parallel Earth coordinate around a specific day each year for everyone to play with falsity? Eliezer Yudkowsky: Not a specific day as such. There's very much a tradition of leading somebody down a garden path, and also of pretending to be led down the garden path — similar to the "MIRI pomodoro: 25 minutes of work followed by 5 minutes of trolling" — but there's a verbal handshake you're supposed to give at the end to prevent that from going out of control and any tragic errors. Emielle Potgieter: What is parallel earth's biggest problem, then? [...] Eliezer Yudkowsky: I'd assume that Artificial General Intelligence is being seen by the Senior Very Serious People as a big problem, given t
x I'm from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA — LessWrong Dath Ilan AMA Coordination / Cooperation Fiction World Modeling World Optimization Curated 176 I'm from a parallel Earth with much higher coordination: AMA by Ben Pace, the Vacationing Vagabond , Eliezer Yudkowsky 5th Apr 2021 73 min read 35 176 Related: My April Fools Day Confession ; Inadequate Equilibria On April 1, Eliezer Yudkowsky ran a dath ilan AMA on Facebook: I came from a parallel Earth that successfully coordinated around maintaining a higher level of ability to solve coordination problems. Ask me anything.
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