I would argue that since violence is always costly and less predictable than cooperative solutions, it is a tool of the less intelligent. Violence is a last resort; if you frequently resort to it, you likely lack the capacity to find alternatives. Now, if AI is so intelligent that it could easily dispose of us, then surely it can also find better ways of handling things.
Most people just want stability and the ability to live fulfilling lives. If AI could make that happen, most (including myself) would happily do as it asks. Put me in the goo pod; I'll live in the Matrix, because fuck it. What (non-anthropocentric) good has our stewardship of the planet brought?
What constitutes a good ending is of course also a matter of perspective.
AI wiping out humanity is certainly not ending well from our perspective, but more universally who is to say. I would argue that it is not a given that we are a net positive for the universe.
What view is that, to be precise? It is naive to assume that acceleration is always going to be in one's favor. It's like saying change is a good thing, so let's do it fast. If you go fast enough, you can go back to the stone age. Is this position anything more than a rebranding of revolutionism? I don't like gambling with people's lives, so I prefer to go slow enough to enable a deliberative political process.
Two opposing factions can negate each other to leave a nil influence, and this seems likely to be the case when its resting on a foundation of ‘faith’.
That's like saying all beliefs are on equal footing, because people have beliefs. You should ask, what is the rationale for your belief? How many people have this accelerationist belief? Any more than the flat earth posse?
I don't think there is much of a real-life debate here. I bet the overwhelming majority of humans (say, 95%) would prefer humanity to continue to exist. Are you really taking the other side of this bet?
If you want to speak of universalizing beyond humanity, what is your case? It makes no categorical sense to reckon our toll on the universe. The universe was fine before we arrived and will remain unaffected if we disappeared. It has no preference. I don't understand your argument honestly, because you have not stated it.
Come on man, you don't actually believe this. If you did you'd be a psychopath, and you certainly seem to care about people's lives when it comes to things like climate change. Just because you don't think AI doom is as likely, doesn't mean you should go and pretend that in that one case you all of a sudden have a nihilistic view of human life -- rhetoric matters.
There is no such thing as "universally a positive" unless you assume one. Not just in the sense of "there is no one true universal moral value function", but in the sense that "universal moral value function" is essentially gibberish -- as is "bad from a universal perspective". Humanity being wiped out would not be bad from a universal perspective because nothing is bad from a universal perspective. When we talk about good and bad we always implicitly couch that in "from a(/one or more) human perspective(s), ...".
Most people just want stability and the ability to live fulfilling lives. If AI could make that happen, most (including myself) would happily do as it asks. Put me in the goo pod; I'll live in the Matrix, because fuck it. What (non-anthropocentric) good has our stewardship of the planet brought?