Being out of the noisy, smelly, dangerous Earth cities feels much better.  Thellim doesn't actually enjoy interacting with most Earthlings; she wishes she did, she knows she ought to cultivate that in herself from a utilitarian standpoint, but it is not fun at all and maybe she'd be wiser to conserve her soul to be spent on other things.  Also videoconferencing technology is amazing.

Thellim spends most of her energy trying to parse up Earth, and most of the rest on looking for ideas from dath ilan that can be adapted to make money.  It's hard, since Earth is, in fact, locally almost-inexploitable with respect to its wildly distorted local incentives and opportunities.  At least Earth is in a form of agent equilibrium, however far below the Pareto boundary and however much people make no effort to get closer to it, rather than it all being an incoherent story postulate rationalized by moon causality.  She writes up logical decision theory but local economists and philosophers don't pay much attention.  She writes up an explanation of why everybody needs to burn all p-values and use likelihood functions, and that also doesn't get much attention.  A friendly economist from George Mason University suggests that she make guest appearances on Econlog, but Thellim turns him down for now.

Being out of the noisy, smelly, dangerous Earth cities feels much better.  Thellim doesn't actually enjoy interacting with most Earthlings; she wishes she did, she knows she ought to cultivate that in herself from a utilitarian standpoint, but it is not fun at all and maybe she'd be wiser to conserve her soul to be spent on other things.  Also videoconferencing technology is amazing.

Thellim spends most of her energy trying to parse up Earth, and most of the rest on looking for ideas from dath ilan that can be adapted to make money.  It's hard, since Earth is, in fact, locally almost-inexploitable with respect to its wildly distorted local incentives and opportunities.  At least Earth is in a form of agent equilibrium, however far below the Pareto boundary and however much people make no effort to get closer to it, rather than it all being an incoherent story postulate rationalized by moon causality.  She writes up logical decision theory but local economists and philosophers don't pay much attention.  She writes up an explanation of why everybody needs to burn all p-values and use likelihood functions, and that also doesn't get much attention.  A friendly economist from George Mason University suggests that she make guest appearances on Econlog, but Thellim turns him down for now.

Earthling speculations about Artificial General Intelligence and superintelligence are extremely conspicuous in their obviousness in retrospect and their absence from dath ilan.

Being out of the noisy, smelly, dangerous Earth cities feels much better.  Thellim doesn't actually enjoy interacting with most Earthlings; she wishes she did, she knows she ought to cultivate that in herself from a utilitarian standpoint, but it is not fun at all and maybe she'd be wiser to conserve her soul to be spent on other things.  Also videoconferencing technology is amazing.

Thellim spends most of her energy trying to parse up Earth, and most of the rest on looking for ideas from dath ilan that can be adapted to make money.  It's hard, since Earth is, in fact, locally almost-inexploitable with respect to its wildly distorted local incentives and opportunities.  At least Earth is in a form of agent equilibrium, however far below the Pareto boundary and however much people make no effort to get closer to it, rather than it all being an incoherent story postulate rationalized by moon causality.  She writes up logical decision theory but local economists and philosophers don't pay much attention.  She writes up an explanation of why everybody needs to burn all p-values and use likelihood functions, and that also doesn't get much attention.  A friendly economist from George Mason University suggests that she make guest appearances on Econlog, but Thellim turns him down for now.

Earthling speculations about Artificial General Intelligence and superintelligence are extremely conspicuous in their obviousness in retrospect and their public absence from dath ilan.

Being out of the noisy, smelly, dangerous Earth cities feels much better.  Thellim doesn't actually enjoy interacting with most Earthlings; she wishes she did, she knows she ought to cultivate that in herself from a utilitarian standpoint, but it is not fun at all and maybe she'd be wiser to conserve her soul to be spent on other things.  Also videoconferencing technology is amazing.

Thellim spends most of her energy trying to parse up Earth, and most of the rest on looking for ideas from dath ilan that can be adapted to make money.  It's hard, since Earth is, in fact, locally almost-inexploitable with respect to its wildly distorted local incentives and opportunities.  At least Earth is in a form of agent equilibrium, however far below the Pareto boundary and however much people make no effort to get closer to it, rather than it all being an incoherent story postulate rationalized by moon causality.  She writes up logical decision theory but local economists and philosophers don't pay much attention.  She writes up an explanation of why everybody needs to burn all p-values and use likelihood functions, and that also doesn't get much attention.  A friendly economist from George Mason University suggests that she make guest appearances on Econlog, but Thellim turns him down for now.