Interesting Links for 08-08-2022
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andrewducker- 1. Teenage girls are being raped by several boys during their boyfriends' gang initiation
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- 2. The Dangerous Ideas of "Longtermism" and "Existential Risk"
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- 3. Genesis: an interpreted, Turing-complete Paleo-Hebrew programming language
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- 4. Humanities scholarship labor crisis: How the infrastructure of research is falling apart.
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- 5. Why does the Bank of England appear to be ignoring its mandate?
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- 6. The terrible, awful, no-good morality of Thomas the Tank Engine
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- 7. How the Conservatives are going to crash the UK's most profitable export industry
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- 8. Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality in both the short- and medium-term with no significant effect on economic growth or unemployment
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- 9. Finland & Croatia Test Digital Passports
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- 10. Spain orders public places set air conditioning no lower than 27 degrees Celsius
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Date: 2022-08-09 10:23 am (UTC)So we aren't allowed to have a discount rate, nor to say that half of all beings now equals half of all beings at some future when there are 10^54 (that would mean that 1 of 10^54 is worth less than one of 10^10).
The Boltzmann Brain theory says that the number of mental beings spontaneously coming into existence (quantum effects?) vastly exceeds the number of mental beings created by the cosmology and biology that we currently "believe". Whilst that doesn't mean that the loss of one in 10^54 does not matter, it might mean that the 10^54 is not significant compared with the number of Boltzmann Brains.
2) Definitely. Stress and diversity are likely to be significant factors in the speed at which we reach "singularity", so longtermism has to worry about being too white.
Bostrom seems to be trying to maximize the number of happy beings, without regard to the number of unhappy beings The ratio matters more to me than the absolute numbers; I'm tempted to say the ratio at each given time not just the ratio over the life of the universe (or all universes).