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I could come up with a story that explains why technical work would more readily admit of sexism, e.g. less opportunity to learn to see coworkers and customers as people rather tha…

I'd expect it's worse in tech than some other professions on average because tech is mostly male, which I think is mostly due to gendered expectations originating from parenting an…

I know far more developers that think the egalitarianism myth is wrong and silly than that buy into it unexamined (I'm not sure I know anyone in the second category personally), th…

I do sometimes wonder what's added by focusing on sexism in tech, in particular, and suggesting it's uniquely a problem with tech. I can believe it's worse here on average than som…

Ah, yes, "a single neuron" is indeed a small subsystem of a brain, and it is indeed common nowadays.

If you're just saying that this specific project is a poor use of resources at the moment, then yeah, agreed. I don't really feel justified in suggesting that any particular level …

Agreed that it's unfeasible for now, of course, but I'm a little amazed people aren't seeing the uses of this. We can edit, directly observe, and record/playback simulated brains. …

AI safety is more of a game theory problem than an engineering problem. Obviously understanding how the thing is implemented could help a lot in understanding how to handle the thi…

Consciousness has next-to-nothing to do with AI safety. People are concerned about software that acts like an agent, not software that has qualia.

I wish it were possible to effectively mass-communicate more complicated beliefs than "X has positive valence" or "X has negative valence". AI will be an enormous boon to every asp…

See also: Do Rational People Exist? http://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/do-rationalists...

I model people's motivations (and systems made out of their motivations, to a lesser extent) as tangly, illegible, time-varying weighted directed graphs of weighted goals, where no…