e/acc has solved the "is-ought" problem with thermodynamics!
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For people who don’t want to go to twitter, heres the thread:
Doomers: “YoU cAnNoT dErIvE wHaT oUgHt fRoM iS” 😵💫
Reality: you literally can derive what ought to be (what is probable) from the out-of-equilibrium thermodynamical equations, and it simply depends on the free energy dissipated by the trajectory of the system over time.
While I am purposefully misconstruing the two definitions here, there is an argument to be made by this very principle that the post-selection effect on culture yields a convergence of the two
How do you define what is “ought”? Based on a system of values. How do you determine your values? Based on cultural priors. How do those cultural priors get distilled from experience? Through a memetic adaptive process where there is a selective pressure on the space of cultures.
Ultimately, the value systems that survive will be the ones that are aligned towards growth of its ideological hosts, i.e. according to memetic fitness.
Memetic fitness is a byproduct of thermodynamic dissipative adaptation, similar to genetic evolution.
Why Yudkowsky is wrong about "covalently bonded equivalents of biology"
My deep dive into yudkowsky's "diamondoid bacteria" claims and drexler-style nanotech in general
My deep dive into yudkowsky's "diamondoid bacteria" claims and drexler-style nanotech in general - awful.systems
https://titotal.substack.com/p/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-deadly [https://titotal.substack.com/p/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-deadly] I wrote this article a month or two ago, thought people here might be interested. Drexler-style nanotech research appears to be effectively dead at the moment. Oh, and Yudkowsky responded to the article [https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/g72tGduJMDhqR86Ns/diamondoid-bacteria-nanobots-deadly-threat-or-dead-end-a?commentId=AXbGjJGzPGtAvjvD3] with characteristic obliviousness: >I broadly endorse this reply and have mostly shifted to trying to talk about “covalently bonded” bacteria, since using the term “diamondoid” (tightly covalently bonded CHON) causes people to panic about the lack of currently known mechanosynthesis pathways for tetrahedral carbon lattices.
Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.”
