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Forecaster Nathan Young argues the rationalist community's acceptance of high-stakes AI concepts is mistaken for active fixation

Miles Brundage called the observation a minor positive update.

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@NathanpmYoung @littIeramblings Could be (+you saying that is a slight positive update for me, though I have a lot of data here). I'm guessing most people who even read the post have cached views on it + some have different thresholds for what counts as unusually accepted etc.

Nathan 🔎@NathanpmYoung

@Miles_Brundage @littIeramblings I don't think obviously. I hardly ever hear rationalists talk about this. And "unusually accepted" and "fixating" are not the same. I think this is a claim ripe to be misinterpreted.

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Positive users thank participants for polite disengagement during debates on existential risk discussion frequency, while negative users accuse others of baseless racism implications tied to LessWrong topics like Race and IQ.

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Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage

@NathanpmYoung @littIeramblings I chimed in briefly in response to Sarah's post so she would know that some people liked it, + as I said early on, I don't think we will easily converge here - seems correct. I have politely engaged at some length but now I need to get back to work

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Nathan 🔎@NathanpmYoung

You know that there are no posts on Race and IQ on Lesswrong that I can find in the last year, right. I guess the last several (other than maybe say discussing the bostrom stuff, but that feels different) If it's some flourishing topic how come I can't find any discussion of it?

And maybe it's bad behaviour to imply a large group of poeple are racist when there isn't evidence?

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Nathan 🔎@NathanpmYoung

@Miles_Brundage @littIeramblings I think conversational disengages are tricky so props. Thanks for chatting.

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