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Thanks to recursive self-improvement, the strongest AI may pull ahead very quickly, and once AIs are more powerful than humans, there is no force that can push things back into balance.
My Techno-Optimism
The rise of trigger warnings and other forms of acquiescence behind which the left has zealously rallied for more than a decade has backfired spectacularly, by fostering a sense of harm that often does not exist. Richard Alan Friedman, a professor5 of clinical psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College, said in an interview that, beginning in 2016
... See moreAlexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
And I think that one of the reasons that with more means, we seem to find less meaning, is that means give you permission to pay less attention .
Packy • Means and Meaning
“If all beliefs are equally true or historically contingent, if the belief in reason is simply an ethnocentric Western prejudice, then there is no superior moral position from which to judge even the most abhorrent practices—as well as, of course, no epistemological basis for postmodernism itself.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
A more advanced approach is to use clever cryptographic trickery: for example, industrial-scale (but not consumer) AI hardware that gets produced could be equipped with a trusted hardware chip that only allows it to continue running if it gets 3/3 signatures once a week from major international bodies, including at least one... See more
eth.limo • D/Acc: One Year Later
If this crash-like process is inevitable, recovery is not. If you happen to become aware of a parrot in time, like the piece of corn noticed by the author of the depression story, you can regain the ability to keep playing.
But if you crash into a finite game and fail to see a parrot for long enough, you can lose the will to keep playing entirely.... See more
But if you crash into a finite game and fail to see a parrot for long enough, you can lose the will to keep playing entirely.... See more
Venkatesh Rao • Don’t Surround Yourself With Smarter People
As Manuel Castells Oliván,2 a Spanish sociologist, has written, “Elites are cosmopolitan, people are local.”
Alexander C. Karp • The Technological Republic: The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir
classic aristocratic morality that imputes virtue to victimhood, levels down human excellence, and strives to protect the innocent above all.
Was Nietzsche a Techno-Optimist?
- It's a useful capability to have: if we get warning signs that near-superintelligent AI is starting to do things that risk catastrophic damage, we will want to take the transition more slowly.
- Until such a critical moment happens, merely having the capability to soft-pause would cause little harm to developers.
- Focusing on industrial-scale hardware,