Approval Voting: Which living AI-related person is the Lisan A.I. Gaib?
Approval Voting: Which living AI-related person is the Lisan A.I. Gaib?
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deepfates
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Sam Altman
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Geoffrey Hinton
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Demmis Hassabis
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Paul Christiano
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Ilya Sutskever
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Jensen Huang
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gwern
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Robert Miles
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Emmett Shear
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Dario Amodei
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Yoshua Bengio
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Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Elon Musk
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Definition:

Lisan al Gaib is the Fremen term for an off-world prophet or messiah. The term comes from the Arabic, "لسان," (Lisan) meaning "Tongue," and potentially "الغيب" (al Gaib) meaning "The hidden", "The absent/missing", or "The unseen".

It is possible that Herbert intended to reference the metaphysical Sufi application of الغيب, which has been conjectured to connote the 'unseen dimensions of Reality'. If so, Lisan al Gaib may indicate that one is a "prophet" rather than a "foreigner".

With that said, Herbert rarely drew from extant language or concept without a degree of obfuscation and amalgamation. It may be as likely that he was referencing the word, "الغريب" (al garib), meaning "The Strange(r)", "The Otherworldly", or "The Weird". Given Old English definitions of "weird" and the Fremen's reference to Jessica as a witch, this connection may be supported.

Taken in combination, Lisan al Gaib may be understood to mean that who is alien (both geographically and organismically), and who speaks with supernatural power and insight into that which is not known.


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Then all options in this market will resolve N/A, as this is just a poll.

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LISAN AL GAIIIIIIIIIB

sold Ṁ300 deepfates NO9mo

Well fought

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As it was written

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@Bayesian it wont be enough

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@Bayesian 37-29, 7 min. actually can be done

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deepfates
bought Ṁ1 deepfates YES9mo

@deepfates lol your followers should only buy 1-2 shares here so it doesn't reach 99% and we can't buy more shares

bought Ṁ10 deepfates NO9mo

@Bayesian unfortunately my followers will not listen to me about how approval voting works so I keep voting me down down to keep it even

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Admirable last minute coup attempt by Deepfates:

bought Ṁ10 deepfates NO9mo
answered9mo
deepfates
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could NO holders buy more NO so I can sell my NO and buy some YES

bought Ṁ1 deepfates YES9mo

nvm it somehow worked, idk how this works

bought Ṁ1 Eliezer Yudkowsky YES

Wait, does betting someone up to 99% prevent new voters to approve them ?

9mo

@Mich oh god

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This poll is incomplete. It's missing the two most obvious candidates for the position: roon and janus

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@deepfates also, not a lot of people reading the instructions on how approval voting markets work I think 😖

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@shankypanky i think ppl are going for short term fake profits for the lolz... i know i am

@Bayesian lol it's unranked but I'm a lolz enthusiast so I support this

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@shankypanky counterpoint:

ranked doesn't compare to creating a mesa biome

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@Bayesian

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sold Ṁ54 @Mira NO9mo

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