[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book (UBI)

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book (UBI)

On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> The self-imposed limit is what they think they can get away with, 
> without too much of that.  In their eyes, risking shutdown is better 
> than risking giving up control.

...and I think I'll share a scenario that's been discussed elsewhere.
Please do advise if this veers too much into politics.  ExiMod, I'd ask first but I do not know how to do so...


Adrian this is ExiMod's call of course and I will comply with whatever ExiMod says.

As I understood it, political discussion is OK.  Personal attacks are not.  Work the ideas, don't insult the person, no problem, no flame wars, none of that.  Political discussions are always delicate, but grenades can be handled safely if the ammo handlers pay attention to procedures and guidelines.  We are among friends here, and from what I can tell, always avoiding stuff like the current US government pretend-shutdown is ignoring the elephant in the room  

ExIMod is the boss of course, and I am not ExiMod.

spike