anon_kone

in thread "Ideology is more fundamental than *just* post-hoc rationalization":

You are absolutely right OP and this always bothered me about the more Marxoid accounts of ideology. Power has structure and motivation. That comes from ideology. Ideas are not just window-dressing on "raw" power but organizational principles and ideals to... 4mo ago

You are absolutely r

My view is somewhat unique here in that I take a basically anthropomorphist interpretation of "machine" intelligence. There are going to be some obvious major differences, like freely copying and branching minds, more independence between hardware and soft... 4mo ago

My view is somewhat

I don't know what you mean by WTP (I'm not well educated in these matters). As for the best arguments against anthropomorphism, there are many good ones. The first and best is simply that the space of mind architectures or even more generally optimizing pr... 4mo ago

I don't know what yo

ok but that's just a restatement of your assumption: that the anthromorph is unnatural contingency and not a natural fact. Let's not forget that man as we know him probably emerged out of optimization for war.... 4mo ago

ok but that's just a