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Yes, but I tend not to advertise too much that people should be less certain about their altruism, since it's hard to see how that could be good for … - Wei Dai
" "Yes, but I tend not to advertise too much that people should be less certain about their altruism, since it's hard to see how that could be good for me regardless of what my values are or ought to be. I make an exception of this for people who might be in a position to build <nowiki>[</nowiki>a friendly artificial intelligence<nowiki>]</nowiki>, since if they're too confident about altruism then they're likely to be too confident about many other philosophical problems, but even then I don't stress it too much.
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Wei Dai is a computer engineer and former cypherpunk who is known for being the original author of Crypto++ and for proposing b-money, a precursor to Bitcoin.
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戴维i
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I typically find myself wanting to verify every single fact or idea that I hadn't heard of before, and say either "hold on, I need to think about that for a few minutes" or "let me check that on Google/Wikipedia". In actual conversation I'd suppress this because I suspect the other person will quickly find it extremely annoying. I just think to myself "I'll try to remember what he's saying and check it out later", but of course I don't have such a good memory.
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I think status is in fact a significant motivation even for me, and even the more "pure" motivations like intellectual curiosity can in some sense be traced back to status. It seems unlikely that <nowiki>[</nowiki>updateless decision theory<nowiki>]</nowiki> would have been developed without the existence of forums like extropians, everything-list, and LW, for reasons of both motivation and feedback/collaboration.
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