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On 2016-05-16 08:16, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:14 AM,
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But this stuff to me is so foreign, not worth
talking about--or, worth talking about, but as a
very very non-serious thought experiment. Like
people in 3000 BC talking about the future. And I
bet they had lots of ideas we've forgotten today,
being closer to the dawn of self-consciousness and
state-of-nature and all that. Take some LSD and
wonder about this stuff again.</div>
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<div>### I find the ems world absolutely fascinating. I see
it as the only way for me to hitch a ride into the future
after superhuman AI comes online, which with every day
that passes is closer by one day.</div>
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Robin's book is a pretty fascinating take on ems, since he develops
the social side of the scenario in deep detail. We may of course
want to work a lot on the tech side, but he is first in trying to
see what our knowledge in the "soft sciences" actually makes likely.<br>
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A key thing in thinking about uncertain future developments is to
realize that a high likeliehood of being wrong is not a reason not
to try it, in many circumstances. If your models cause you to take
actions that are maximally reasonable then it does not matter that
there is a lot of noise.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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