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Rationalists should embrace will-to-power as an existential value fact
Imagine a being who systematically questions and can rewrite their beliefs and values to ensure legitimate grounding. I think humans can and should do more of this, but you might more easily imagine an AI that can read and write its own source code and bel... posted 1w ago with 2 replies 55

Rationalists should 55

I like your OP post, so I'll apologize in advance for what I'm about to do ... 19m ago 22

I like your OP post, 22

a loving superintelligence
Superintelligence (SI) is near, raising urgent alignment questions. ... posted 6d ago with 4 replies 55

a loving superintell 55

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... 2d ago 33

Good points. As one 33

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 3w ago with 10 replies 1212

Ideology is more fun 1212

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: ... 6d ago 11

I think even acts of 11

Rat King 1518. Insurrealist takes on Scott Alexander's "Moloch" (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 2w ago with 5 replies 1111

Rat King 1518. Insur 1111

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... 2w ago 44

Moloch is certainly 44

Agency. On Machine Intelligence and Worm Wisdom by Insurrealist (insurrealist.substack.com) posted 2w ago with 2 replies 77

Agency. On Machine I 77

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... 2w ago 22

Michael Levin actual 22

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 2mo ago with 21 replies 99

Accelerationism 99

Here you can find some estimates of LLM efficiency: ... 4w ago 11

Here you can find so 11

How I came to believe in the goodness of God
I was raised on what my mother called "natural history". The story of creation was one of billions of years in layers of bedrock. The story of life was the struggle of genes for resources and reproduction. When I met christians, they were the unsophisticat... posted 4mo ago with 21 replies 1717

How I came to believ 1717

Thank you. Sounds like Lasker goes on the infinitely expanding list of books i ought to read. Any new angles on Gnon theology are highly valuable at this point in our program. 3mo ago 33

Thank you. Sounds li 33