September 05, 2024

“Executable philosophy as a failed totalizing meta-worldview” by jessicata

8 minutes

(this is an expanded, edited version of an x.com post)

It is easy to interpret Eliezer Yudkowsky's main goal as creating a friendly AGI. Clearly, he has failed at this goal and has little hope of achieving it. That's not a particularly interesting analysis, however. A priori, creating a machine that makes things ok forever is not a particularly plausible objective. Failure to do so is not particularly informative.

So I'll focus on a different but related project of his: executable philosophy. Quoting Arbital:

Two motivations of "executable philosophy" are as follows:

We need a philosophical analysis to be "effective" in Turing's sense: that is, the terms of the analysis must be useful in writing programs. We need ideas that we can compile and run; they must be "executable" like code is executable.

We need to produce adequate answers on a time scale [...]

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First published:

September 4th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Bi4yt7onyttmroRZb/executable-philosophy-as-a-failed-totalizing-meta-worldview

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