LessWrong 2.0 Reader

If you search for "Less Wrong Census" you will find the existing surveys of the LessWrong readership. 

Something like iterative/cliff, with fast and slow expressing time scales

Dear Max, If you would like more confirmation of the immediacy and likely trajectory of the biorisk from AI, please have a private chat with Kevin Esvalt who is also at MIT. I speak with such concern about biorisk from AI because I've been helping his new AI Biorisk Eval team at SecureBio for the past year. Things are seeming pretty scary on that front.

I think it's still very useful to be able to predict your own behaviour (including in the case where you know you've made a prediction about it).

Things can get weird if you care more about the outcome of the prediction than the outcome of the event in itself, but this should rarely be the case - and is worth avoiding, I think.

Can you sort the poll options by popularity?

Iterative/Sudden

I can only describe the Product, not the tech. The idea would be to plug in a bigger working memory in the area of the brain currently holding working memory. This is the piece I think matters most

On reflection something like wolfram alpha should be enough for calculations, and a well indexed reservoir of knowledge with an LLM pulling up relevant links with summaries should be good enough for the rest

Inside the super organism you are correct, but the genome is influenced by outside forces as whole over the ages - and any place where this breaks down for long enough you eventually get two species instead of one.

Therefore outside groups can treat the species as a super organism in general, the individual members must be dealt with individually when there is previous loyalty to another member of the other species.

For example, an Englishman and his dog vs an eskimo and his dog. The two humans may be against each other, the dogs may be against each other, but the opposite human/dog interactions would be standard if they weren't already attached to other in-species members.

This gives the bones of a proper theoretical foundation on the moral duties between members of different species.

For example, this would back the intuition of eating dog to be worse than eating a bear or octupus, regardless of intelligence, and of killing rats out of hand

They'd not identical. First, they have a different status, much the same as citizens and aliens have different rights. Second, different species of animals have different relationships with humanity: Dogs are bred to be symbiotic companions Cats are parasites if allowed, pest control if tolerated Rats are disease vector scavengers Chickens are livestock - they lay infertile eggs for human consumption!