[ExI] Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, Singularitarian Principles. Update?

Fri Nov 12 11:19:53 UTC 2010

Thanks Richard Loosemore, regarding the SL4 route to contact Eliezer, that's 
exactly the info I needed.

John Grigg, you say I may not be allowed to stay long on the SL4 list? Why is 
this, are Singularitarians an intolerant group leaning towards fascism?

Spike, you say Eliezer's theme was: "The singularity is coming regardless.  Let 
us work to make it a positive thing."... and you say: "My constructive criticism 
of your earlier posts was that your theme is: the singularity will be a positive 
thing regardless."

Yes it is my intention to make the Singularity a positive thing regardless. I 
say the Singularity will be a positive thing regardless of what anyone else says 
because, and this is the important bit, the power of my expectations  positively 
manifested WILL create utopia. It is all about my determination, self-belief, 
the power of expectations, self-confidence, confidence in my abilities. You may 
think my confidence is blind, misguided, or foolishly overconfident but I assure 
you I will create utopia even if I have to do it all on my own, battling against 
a legion of pessimists. In a sane world I cannot see why Eliezer would think my 
attitude would be annoying or dangerous, but the world is insane therefore 
irrational responses to my views are likely.

I actually think people who are overly-obsessed with friendly AI are very 
dangerous due to their misguided attempts to attain rationality and "overcome 
bias". My following webpage regarding the dangerous nature of people obsessed 
with friendly-AI could possibly enlighten you:

http://singularity-2045.org/ai-dangerous-hostile-unfriendly.html

Spike you say: "The singularity is not necessarily a good thing, but we know 
that a no-singularity future is a bad thing."

I assure you the Singularity WILL absolutely without doubt be a good thing but 
this will not be through my inaction, it will because the power of my intellect 
positively manifested has made the Singularity a good thing. I will utilize a 
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, which I have previously  mentioned. Furthermore a 
negative intelligence explosion would oxymoronic-intelligence. Intelligence will 
be "intelligent" therefore the explosion will be utopian if truly intelligent 
people define "intelligence". The problem with some people who think they are 
intelligent is that they are misguided about the definition of intelligence, 
they are actually rather stupid. 

I will utilize the concept of self-fulfilling prophecy to create utopia. There 
is no need to doubt the future. Utopia is coming. Rest assured you can expect 
utopia. I encourage you all to put in the extra effort to make it happen sooner 
instead of later. I am the Singularity! I am utopia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

Regarding the fallacy of "Overcoming Bias" I will soon publish a rebuttal on my 
blogs. The desire to overcome bias is in itself a bias but such pseudo-rational 
people are unaware of their bias due to the fact they are "bias-deniers" 
(bias-fascists): they are overcoming bias thus they are creating a blind-spot 
regarding their bias. Bias cannot be overcome, but if you try to overcome it you 
will decrease you self-awareness.

http://yudkowsky.net/rational/overcoming-bias 

Here is my forthcoming blog (in progress) regarding "the Bias of overcoming 
Bias":

The major bias plaguing so-called rationalists is their glaring blind-spot 
regarding the power of Self-fulfilling Prophecy.

Contrary  to their biased assertions (that bias should be overcome), I state 
bias  is a fundamental part of human consciousness. Bias should be utilized  
constructively, it should be not transcended. Self-fulfilling Prophecy is a 
preeminent usage of bias. The solution is to be highly aware. To transcend bias 
is  tantamount to lobotomizing the mind. Bias is the heart of evaluation,  
judgment, existence. We are biased regarding pain and pleasure for  example. If 
we were not biased regarding pain and pleasure we would be  mindless robots. Do 
Transhumanists seek the evolution of the human organism  to a point where we are 
stoical machines indifferent to emotions?

Wishful-thinking,  positive-thinking, and overconfidence can be very effective 
when  applied  via keen intellect. Sadly the so-called "rationalist-less-wrong" 
movement (overcoming bias) and similar Transhuman-futurist-cliques are deficient 
in intellect. Furthermore they are unaware of their intellectual deficiencies 
due to their bias; they are biased about bias thus they want to overcome it, but 
they are  unaware of there bias.

http://www.overcomingbias.com is good example of flawed thinking.

Sadly I suspect the proponents of overcoming bias and other similar endeavours 
will be negatively-biased regarding my contributions?

Regards

Singularity Utopia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy

http://singularity-2045.org/hyper-mind-explosion.html

http://singularity-2045.org/

Here is an article I wrote about subjectivity/objectivity a while ago:

http://spacecollective.org/SingularityUtopia/6133/Objectivity-Fallacy-a-plea-for-increased-subjectivity

UTOPIA IS COMING!

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