Shalmanese

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If reason told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?

In reply to Eliezer's Contrarian Status Catch 22 & Sufficiently Advanced Sanity. I accuse Eliezer of encountering a piece of Advanced Wisdom

Any sufficiently advanced wisdom is indistinguishable from bullshit

In the grand tradition of sequences, I'm going to jot this down real quick because it's required for the next argument I'm going to make.

Rebasing Ethics

Lets start with the following accepted as a given: - There exists no supernatural forces in the world and there is no objective morality i

Man-with-a-hammer syndrome

What gummed up Skinner’s reputation is that he developed a case of what I always call man-with-a-hammer syndrome: to the man with a hammer,