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Agreed, with important works you’re not just reading the content but also the spirit of the author. That which is left behind after the words are through. Been feeling a greater pull towards original texts after LLMs, separating what needs to be consumed... 1w ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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Look no comment on the current regime and its lack of tact. I support their priorities but there's obviously a lot of dumb stuff going on. In any case I consider it orthogonal to what we should be doing in theory and i wish not to be constrained by their r... 2w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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This is my prediction for most likely trajectory as well. In science fiction, the term "slow apocalypse" is sometimes use for this class of outcome.... 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6

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I have shared my ideas many times, to many people, even in national "respectable" media outlets. At the most you will have wordcels and influencers wannabes stealing all your ideas and making them small. Not worth it. 4w ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1

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We see it already with today's tech companies, to an extent: the US government shuts down nuclear power plants while GOOGL and MSFT plan on building their own nuclear power plants, facilitating their respective AGI plans.... 4w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4

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Great question OP. This one has puzzled me for many years as I have been convinced both of the near-medium possibility and revolutionary impact of AGI, and of the demographic suicide default trajectory. Here's how i factor it:... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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This story is clearly in the fast takeoff regime. The essential difference between fast and slow takeoff is, 'is the takeoff happening faster than the rate of cultural development'.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 8 8

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The point of the story isn't that the devil is good or even that the devil was right. It’s that this creation (physical reality) is the good one, the pain in it is part of a greater plan and beauty, and the paradise imagined by bronze age semites is fake... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI.... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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This matches my intuition - Elizerian alignment was always an incoherent goal, no agents or objects have perfectly coherent boundaries, making something intelligent provably aim at a single well defined end state is probably at best a recipe for madness in... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1

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We need a school of true anthropology. 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2

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Some people won't believe in the inherent goodness of existence until it's been autistically proven to them with English philosophizing a hundred times over. That's fine. For the rest of us, we don't need to be persuaded of the inherent goodness of existen... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2

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Good points. As one of those psychopathic techno-spergs you mention, I understand love as a sort of higher-order self interest of the social body, and emotion as our proxy intuitions on correct response in the less rationally calculable cases. The reason t... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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Moloch is certainly used as a pretext for hubris against God (as is typical of all self-righteous Ivan Karamazov types that only end up making matters worse for the very people they claim to stand in defense of), but the concept is more limited. Indeed, it... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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Michael Levin actually compares the developmental process, which has to cope with all manner of error, insult, variation, and adversarial action, to a variational autoencoder, so it's not like we're extremely far off from the right questions, but the cultu... 4mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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What do you mean by this? What I meant by the mind being an artificial world is that it has its own internal rules that aren't just its parts contending in terms of base reality. It's not a natural ecosystem, but a highly cultivated and abstracted one. I h... 13mo ago (collapse hidden) retry 3 3

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I have found the instincts to be trainable by philosophy. No one can escape the value grounding problem (that values must be taken on faith), but you can reach reflective equilibrium where your values are self-consistent with everything you know and with t... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 5 5

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\> I need a way to think about accelerationist AI apocalypse in a non-millenarian way.... 2y ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1

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