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So the responsible thing to do is to refrain, right? Cause if everybody did nobody would have the ability to destroy the site, and what would you do with such an ability anyway except not use it?.

Glad you wrote this post! Upvoted.

The thing Buddhism is on the "pulse" of is that: 

The "one weird trick" to getting the right answers is to discard all stuck, fixed points. Discard all priors and posteriors. Discard all aliefs and beliefs. Discard worldview after worldview. Discard perspective. Discard unity. Discard separation. Discard conceptuality. Discard map, discard territory. Discard past, present, and future. Discard a sense of you. Discard a sense of world. Discard dichotomy and trichotomy. Discard vague senses of wishy-washy flip floppiness. Discard something vs nothing. Discard one vs all. Discard symbols, discard signs, discard waves, discard particles. 

I'd like to flag that while I believe this is to be a reasonable description of one interpretation of Buddhism, I think it's either wrong or at least misleadingly phrased according to other interpretations, with some other takes being more akin to "all models are wrong, but some are useful" (which does not imply discarding everything, rather just remembering that no single thing is sole and ultimate truth).

I have no idea what the event will be, but Petrov Day itself is the 26th of September, and given that LW users are in many timezones my expectation is that there will be no specific time you need to be available on that day. 

I can confirm the problem is fixed now. Thanks!

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• i.e slow down a little, you may be getting into a heated exchange.

I just got screwed over by this,  It strikes me as insane to be rate-limited to "slow down" and not get into a "heated exchange" when the limit is done by checking the user's karma for the last 20 comments from any time period.  20 comments from me go back months,  I can't get all that much slower.  And 3 downvoters and -1 is an awfully small limit, and easy to hit just out of bad luck.

Also, if you post from greaterwrong, and you hit the limit, your comment and the effort spent writing it is just lost.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but where can I find details on the Petrov day event/website feature?

I don't want to sign up to participate if (for example) I am not going to be available during the time of the event, but I get selected to play a role.

Maybe the lack of information is intentional?

This is neat.

Did you write all that or who did?

One underlying idea comes from how AI mis-generalization is intended to work. If superintelligent AI systems are misaligned, does this misalignment look like an inaccurate generalization from what their overseers wanted or a deceptive goal that's entirely unrelated to anything their overseers intended to train. Levels 1-4 vs levels 5+, [LW · GW] more or less. 

If the AI that's misaligned ends up 'egregiously' misaligned and doesn't care at all about anything human valuable, as Eliezer thinks, it places zero terminal value on human welfare and only trade, threats or compromise would get it to be nice.

If it's super-intelligent and you aren't, none of those apply. Hence, nothing is left for humans. If the AI is misaligned in any other way that's not an entirely arbitrary value system, then it values human survival at least a bit.

Could there not be AI value drift in our favor, from a paperclipper AI to a moral realist AI?

But some of the writing in those old sacred texts is actually really good.

The Halo Effect (pun not intended) is very strong here.

I seldom see people who say thibnngs like this also say that the writing in the Koran is actually really good, for some reason. And not because there's some difference in how good the writing in the Koran and in the Bible is.