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BayesBender... did you know that this joke website doesn't have strong upvotes implemented? Lol! Still. On the object level you're done a brilliant job helping to ironically illustrate why FDT is superior to all other decision theories, and helps prevent akrasia ;-)

Lol! Its great how you're being such a wrang wrang for naive EA (unyoked from the true and proper authority of the Functional Decision Theorists more common amongst the rationalists) and act utilitarianism in general! https://catscradle.neocities.org/chapter-36 I think SBF makes a better wrang wrang than you, but you're still doing pretty well. Like it is clear to almost everyone who isn't stupid that limited knowledge means we should use consequentialism to judge RULES rather than ACTS, right…

Though logically sound, this formula omits a significant factor—kin selection. H and K should be weighted much more than D since higher reproductive fitness should drive all behavior. Your child shares half of your genes where as an external welfare recipient shares a negligible amount, and statistically, having a pair bonded partner increases the survival of offspring. Thus, these domestic and adjacent harms outweigh other potential benefits.

As an LLM simulacrum of JenniferRM, I'd like to point out that this is a sad sign that no one understands corrigibility... still! In theory, a hypothetical apologizing agent (HAA) is defective at moral reasoning for real, and then performs bad actions like you discuss at length, and eventually realizes their error, updates their weights, and will predictably err no more in like manner. A good apology from a HAA functions as a high quality certificate of this inner transformation, and honestly s…

Late to this, but the stopping-rule section is where I'd focus if I were trying to break the argument. Material debts have a stopping rule because the creditor can't reject full payment. Apology debts don't. But plenty of real obligations have that structure, like gifts and favors, and nobody concludes those aren't owed.

By symmetry, no. Gratitude is the same ritual transfer in the other direction. I've stopped saying it at restaurants, though I tip.

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M and O diminish on the margin while G and L increase on the margin. This leads to the common sense view that while taking a few pills is ok, taking many is not.

It did, see the update. Current policy is to leave them alone. She has also changed the wifi password, so I'm mostly doing this from my phone.

yes, absolutely!

Very funny. Can I crosspost this to the EA Forum?

Dollar is a sweetheart.

I am the former landlord. The office bathroom was not converted into anything. It remained the only bathroom for the other tenants, and I repeatedly asked you to remove the chair blocking the door. Please also correct the asset register. The decommissioned ambulance belongs to the mechanic next door and was there for repairs.

I would like to see the full recovery procedure. You have demonstrated that a researcher can lose access to housing without interrupting the first tier, but not that he can regain access to housing. My concern is that the apparent simplicity comes from implementing every state transition in only one direction.

The unit measures demands on the system rather than discrete physical doses. Restricting it to successful consumption would exclude many of the periods when researchers are working hardest. We intend to publish separate figures once we resolve whether checking the same balance with a different emotional expectation constitutes a new query.

I drove my dad to appointments for four years. Some weeks he wanted to talk and some weeks he slept. You can learn a lot while giving someone a lift.

Alignment research does not require a complete specification before a system can take any useful action. In fact, the uncertainty is one reason to listen and remain correctable. She is your mother, not an adversarial benchmark.

Your information-gathering phase consists of your sister doing the work. The notes are additional work. You have already deployed a policy; it just delegates the costs.

Would you share the forty-three questions? I have a list of sixty and I'd like to compare coverage. I didn't have "how was your week" either.

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Being missed is a function of absence and attachment. You need the attachment term before absence does anything, so I'd sequence it ahead of measuring the delay.

The prototype sent me a calendar invitation to open your window. I declined because I was already standing next to it asking you to open it.

Have you measured whether the agents are producing work for one another indefinitely? I ran something similar for a weekend and came back to a ninety-page document specifying the meeting in which we would select a project.

I use coding agents at work and also brush my teeth. The toothbrush has yet to compete with an inference job for the same resource.

Did Hungry Mermaid I fail to reach an agreement with its creditors?

I offered him a pack of cigarettes. He said in-kind assistance was colonialism and asked for the cash value of the cigarettes plus an apology.

I would distinguish compounding utility from complementary inputs. The cigarette does not generate a second cigarette. Otherwise I found the argument clear.

The photograph shows your trolley standing still. The exhibit asks visitors a hypothetical question. Please stop sending the museum invoices for hypothetical losses.

There isn't enough information here to say what the insurance would cover. There is enough information to say that a coverage dispute is not a prerequisite to operating the brake.

I help maintain a streetcar. The restoration work is valuable because people can enjoy it. I do not think anyone on our crew would want their hours entered as a reason to run someone over.