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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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I agree. I spent more time than I'd like to admit trying to understand Yudkowsky's posts about newcomb boxes back in the day so my two cents:
The digital clones bit also means it's not an argument based on altruism, but one based on fear. After all if a future evil AI uses sci-fi powers to run the universe backwards to the point where I'm writing this comment and copy pastes me into a bazillion torture dimensions then, subjectively, it's like I roll a dice and:
Like a twisted version of the Sleeping Beauty Problem.
Edit: despite submitting the comment I was not teleported to the torture dimension. Updating my priors.