Wei Dai
@weidai11
wrote Crypto++, b-money, UDT. thinking about existential safety and metaphilosophy. blogging at
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One problem is that China's official state philosophy is dialectical materialism (mandatory to learn it in college). Which is part of the continental philosophy tradition, whereas LW/EA/AI safety are basically branches of analytical philosophy.
Not sure how hard it would be to overcome this, but it's probably one reason why they don't have their own LW-like scene.
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Ironically there is now apparently a memecoin named "b-money" trying to entice users with the prospect of high financial returns, when the real b-money was designed specifically to keep a long-term stable value (relative to a basket of real goods/services).
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@JMCrypto_ I think you're the first person ever to ask me that. :) But I was thinking of "broadcast" and "burn" when I chose "b-money". ("Burn" because to create b-money you have to do PoW to burn resources equal to the value of the money.)
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I'm taking advantage of the Ox Alpha situation myself, but it occurs to me that the start of an AI takeover could look a lot like this.
