gerikson

Tired: AI

Wired (and delicious): A1

To (mis)quote one of my favorite bands

Meat's just meat it's all born dying
Some is tender some is tough
Somebody's gotta mop up the AI
Somebody's gotta mop up the blood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTPQPwDM_A

"I no longer believe that effective altruism and democracy are compatible".

Anywhoo, did not know the scaling of voting power to karma before. Interesting.

At the start they state

The disappointment of imminent death is all the more crushing because just a few years ago researchers announced breakthrough discoveries that suggested [existing, adult] humans could have healthspans of thousands of years. To drop the analogy, here I'm talking about my transhumanist beliefs. The laws of physics don't demand that humans slowly decay and die at eighty. It is within our engineering prowess to defeat death, and until recently I thought we might just do that, and I and my loved ones would live for millennia, becoming post-human superbeings.

This is, frankly, bonkers. I'd rate the following in descending order of probability

1. worldwide societal collapse due to climate change
2. we develop an AI that will kill us all for unspecified reasons
3. we establish viable self-sustaining societies outside the limits of Earth
4. we develop techniques that allow everyone to live effectively forever

If the first happens, it removes the material requirements for the latter things to happen. This is an extreme form of "denial of the flesh", the inability to realize that without food or water no-one will be working on AI or life extension tech.

Evgeny Morozov: The New Legislators of Silicon Valley

Some idiot on LW still thinks the same way:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LJinTACnzpCeso6KQ/misinformation-is-the-default-and-information-is-the

I selected and worded these suspicions to sound more like things a Democrat might say, because I’m trying to persuade Democrats that conservative misinformation draws from reasonable attitudes.

One was poisoning the coffee, another one the cocaine. One was trying to electrocute him in the pool, on getting the chandelier to fall on him and so on.

Hitman 4

It's still on the front page, almost 300 comments. Haven't time to review them all but doesn't look like the promptfondlers have the upper hand

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619759

Found on HN:

[Working with AI is] An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force

25 upvotes, no comments yet..

oh god has he spawned????

I'm thinking they hired Jar-Jar Binks to the team.

"God I wish I was an AI so i didn't have to do this"