| > who genuinely believe in a singularity-type AI that would have the potential to wipe out humanity Believe? They genuinely welcome it. Larry Page, for example, in another recent NYT piece. Marc Andreeseen? "Effective accelerationism aims to follow the 'will of the universe': leaning into the thermodynamic bias towards futures with greater and smarter civilizations that are more effective at finding/extracting free energy from the universe," and "E/acc has no particular allegiance to the biological substrate for intelligence and life, in contrast to transhumanism." These people are so up their own asses, they completely lost the plot. These are the individuals who will self-regulate, also while casually musing about systematic genocide of the entire planet. A superior race of being that is more efficient and which is to replace us? Geeee, never heard that one before. Sounds real nice. Maybe it can build very efficient gas chambers and furnaces too so it can thin the herd faster, eh! AI is less of a problem than the people around it, who are borderline certifiable, but at least are raging sociopaths who masquerade as "thinkers". Dude, you were a good coder who came up with a better way of ranking pages when the field was wide open. Calm down. |
I noticed a weird thing in many of them, the people building all that tech and breaking new ground seem to just be invisible, and all the drama seems to be created and perpetuated by a bunch of elitist techno-priest type people.
These people generally have 0 clue on what's actually going on. I doubt most of them could even explain basic stats concepts.
I don't know if this makes sense, but that's the imagery in my mind.