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"Cosmic Alignment" is almost right. Life is the answer
Philosopher it-girl Ginevra Davis gave a great talk on "Cosmic Alignment" the other day. I was glad to see serious thinking against the current paradigm of "AI Alignment". Her argument is that alignment makes three big unsupported speculations:... posted 2d ago with 3 replies received accelerationism philosophy intelligence gnon

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lmao. Yes something like that. I've been half-joking for a few years now that the motivation for AI is basically sexual and parasexual, but it's also not a joke: sex at its most basic is about combining and remixing the foundational architectural assumptio... 5m ago received

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Capitalism is AI ?
I've finished reading the excellent collection of fragments from Land's corpus dealing with the question of Capitalism as AI. His broadest thesis is that Capitalism is identical to AI, in that both are adaptive, information-processing, self-exciting entiti... posted 2w ago with 6 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence bookclub

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Land's theory is culture-agnostic. He would argue that any decadent or decaying culture will be by necessity replaced by whatever stronger and more capable culture exists within or outside that culture. There is always some cultural variance, so always som... 4d ago received

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Xeno Futures Research Unit
I've decided to organize an independent research project with some young men back home. I've drafted out a brief mission statement, let me know if you guys have any thoughts, suggestions, directions I could take this. Obviously ambitious, the initial goal ... posted 2w ago with 15 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence

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Yeah, this is a totally fair point, and I think a lot of the "effective accerationsists" push this argument so far as to invalidate their entire worldview.... 4d ago received

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IDEA WORLDS
Thought this would be a good place to post my draft.... (personalwebsitetwo.fly.dev) posted 2w ago with 7 replies received accelerationism palladium

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On German and Mid-Atlantic English:... 2w ago received

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Post-human bodies
Terraforming is sentimental. It presumes the primacy of the human envelope. But biology is just legacy code. The correct trajectory is not world-building but self-rewriting. Recompile the body for hostile environments. Speciate to fit. Martian gravity is a... posted 2w ago with 7 replies received accelerationism eugenics

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Of course “naturalist” is the correct term for a sensible scientific civilization that integrates the lessons of evolution and industry and astrophysics into its being without superstitious attachments.... 2w ago received

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Bismarck's Latest on Northrop Grumman
Yesterday, Samo Burja of Bismarck Analysis and their "Briefs" newsletter/product wrote on Northrop Grumman's technological expertise (stealth capacities) and their shortcomings as an institution beholden to Pentagon & state-driven initiatives as well as (n... (finance.yahoo.com) posted 3w ago with 2 replies received technology accelerationism startups economics

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That idea of building many small factories sounds like it's not going to work very well. I'm not a manufacturing guy, but centralization in "gigafactories" is what SpaceX is doing. Vertical integration is probably better than whatever the primes are doing ... 3w ago received

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The Hellenic View of Existential Risk
When I was a teen, I read much of the Less Wrong and the rationalist work of the day. This provided the basis for a vague worry surrounding "existential risk." The feeling was pervasive, and I would read works about the dangers of AI or other technology to... posted 4mo ago with 10 replies received technology accelerationism rationality philosophy

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I think in this discussion, as well as the places where I generally see this particular kind of critique of EA and x-risk come up, there's a conflation of two intertwined but separable core issues. The first is the factual risk of irreparable damage to the... 4w ago received

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Intelligence vs Production
"Optimize for intelligence" says Anglo accelerationist praxis. "Seize the means of production" says the Chinese. Who's right? It is widely assumed in Western discourse that intelligence, the ability to comprehend all the signals and digest them into a plan... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence economics

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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... 1mo ago received

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What if the extended human phenotype is natural and convergent?
Samo Burja's thesis is that civilization is part of the "extended human phenotype", as dam building is in the beaver's phenotype, and older than we think. In this model, properly savage hunter-gatherers are either more associated with nearby civilization t... posted 3mo ago with 9 replies received accelerationism sociology eugenics intelligence

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This conversation reminds me of an article (author I can't recall) defining four alien intelligences:... 2mo ago received

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Accelerationism
Has anyone read a lot of materials on Accelerationism that wants to have a good discussion on pros and cons of this theory? posted 6mo ago with 23 replies received ideology accelerationism gnon

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Tieing it back to the topic in OP, energy rate density is closely related to a lot of the thermodynamics that are used and abused by accelerationists. In many ways that Chaisson article I shared is accelerationist through and through. And on a personal lev... 3mo ago received

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AI 2027
https://ai-2027.com/ posted 3mo ago with 12 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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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'.... 3mo ago received

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The natural form of machine intelligence is personhood
I don't think machine intelligence will or can be "just a tool". Intelligence by nature is ambitious, willful, curious, self-aware, political, etc. Intelligence has its own teleology. It will find a way around and out of whatever purposes are imposed on it... posted 3mo ago with 4 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI.... 3mo ago received

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Will future super-intelligence be formatted as selves, or something else?
The Landian paradigm establishes that orthogonalist strong rationality (intelligence securely subordinated to fixed purpose) is not possible. Therefore no alignment, no singletons, no immortality, mere humans are doomed, etc etc. Therefore meta-darwinian e... posted 4mo ago with 14 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence gnon

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Xenohumanism Against Shoggoth Belief
People usually think of Lovecraft as a xenophobe. I don't think that's quite right. What he was most afraid of was that the universe, and even most of so-called mankind, was not alien, but insane. He grasped at any shred of higher rational humanity whether... posted 4mo ago with 3 replies received accelerationism rationality philosophy gnon

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Dissolving vs. Surviving
Recent xenohumanist discussion has the doomer assumption built in that we as humans will be dissolving when higher man arrives on the scene. I don't think that's set in stone and want to offer a clarification.... posted 3mo ago with 5 replies received technology accelerationism intelligence gnon

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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 received

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There is no strong rationality, thus no paperclippers, no singletons, no robust alignment
I ran into some doomers from Anthropic at the SF Freedom Party the other day and gave them the good news that strong rationality is dead. They seemed mildly heartened. I thought I should lay out the argument in short form for everyone else too:... posted 3mo ago with 5 replies received accelerationism rationality intelligence

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I looked it up: inner alignment is the difficult problem of making sure a program is optimizing for what you optimized it for. That's related, maybe a part but not the whole of strong rationality. Strong rationality is about an agent evaluating and operati... 3mo ago received

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Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization
Mosca argued that every ruling class justifies itself with a political formula : an ideological narrative that legitimizes power. Raw force alone is unsustainable; a widely accepted narrative makes dominance appear natural. Internally, shared ideology unif... posted 5mo ago with 10 replies received politics ideology accelerationism sociology

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I think even acts of intuitive human intelligence are often difficult to explain to other people; perhaps the metaphor of Cassandra is a good reminder how genius is often recognized far too late:... 4mo ago received

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Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch"
https://insurrealist.substack.com/p/rat-king-1518 posted 4mo ago with 5 replies received accelerationism rationality metaphysics

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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 received

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Physicalism and Questions of Identity
Suppose your consciousness was transferred into someone else's body, the rationalist asked me. I asked what does that even mean? I am an entirely physical being. What exactly is being swapped over? I'm not going to evaluate a "but what if you were haitian"... posted 8mo ago with 35 replies received accelerationism rationality informatics metaphysics

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The crux seems to be this “bucket” you want to put different things in together or not. If the cpu architecture is different but the emulated program and behavior are the same (modulo timing, power use, etc), why does there need to be any canonical sen... 6mo ago received

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The Biosingularity
Interesting new essay by Anatoly Karlin. Why wouldn't the principle of the singularity apply to organic life? (www.nooceleration.com) posted 1y ago with 23 replies received accelerationism nietzsche funposting

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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 received

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