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I seriously doubt that there is even one "AGI evangelist" who has the intellectual capacity to read books written for adult audiences.
by jennyholzer2 9mo ago
I seriously doubt that there is even one "AGI evangelist" who has the intellectual capacity to read books written for adult audiences.
- ctoth 9mo agoHi. I am not an evangelist -- I'm quite certain it's going to kill us all! But I would like to think that I'm about the closest thing to an AI booster you might find here, given that I get so much damn utility out of it. I'm interested in reading, I probably read too much! would you like to suggest a book we can discuss next week? I'd be happy to do this with you.
- wizzwizz4 9mo agoIf you're "quite certain it's going to kill us all", then you are extremely foolish to not be opposing it. Do you think there's some kind of fatalistic inevitability? If so… why? Conjectures about the inevitable behaviour of AI systems only apply once the AI systems exist.
- ctoth 9mo agoYou're on a plane. The plane is going to crash. You aren't a pilot. There's WiFi on the plane. Do you use the WiFi before it crashes?
- bitwize 9mo agoMarxists have the tendency to think that the Venn diagram of "people who have read and understand Marx" and "Marxists" is a circle. There are plenty of AGI evangelists who are smart enough to read Marx, and many of them probably have. The problem is that, being technolibertarians and that, they think Marx is the enemy.
- DiscourseFan 9mo agoThat seems patently absurd, considering that the debate is not between marxists and non-marxists but accelerationists and orthodox marxists, who are both readers of marx, its just that the former is in alignment with technolibertarianism.