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Most of the ideological points we are citing (mystery cult of intelligence, anti-authoritarianism, obesity, finance maximalism) masquerading as strategy are in fact copes for the lack of strategy. The whole cannot direct the parts by any higher logic, so w... 1w ago (collapse hidden) 4 4 retry

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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. ... 1w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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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: ... 2w ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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intelligent super-ants make a good thought experiment. Let's add the standard set of capabilities: language, learned culture, tool use, fire, reflection, etc. Note these are just capabilities, not values or arbitrary architectural narrowings, but they are ... 4w ago (collapse hidden) 7 7 retry

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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... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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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'. ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 8 8 retry

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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... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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This is the central conjecture of xenohumanism. The OP is just an application specifically to the question of AI. ... 1mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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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) 1 1 retry

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Best of luck with the epicycles. ... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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

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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... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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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... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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am I supposed to envy this? 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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I agree anon, this is why I think the core issue here is the lack of aesthetics or taste in the perception of the world. It is like trying to understand the world with only sight and sound but no touch. You would build all these mental castles about the di... 2mo ago (collapse hidden) 2 2 retry

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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: ... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 1 1 retry

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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... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 5 5 retry

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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... 3mo ago (collapse hidden) 3 3 retry

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As such works go, I would say that New Atlantis (and Bacon in general) is less on the esoteric side. Bacon is pretty clear about his program, and it aligns with the development of technology that actually unfolded, up to a Landian perspective on AI. 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 6 6 retry

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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) 5 5 retry

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