Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc.
by Starlevel004 on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:19PM
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This all makes more sense when you realise it's Calvinism for programmers.
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I think I heard that one before. Nuclear weapons are the Armageddon of nerds. Climate change is the Flood of the nerds. And so on.
Could you expand on this?
> [Superintelligence safety] teaches that the glory and sovereignty of [superintelligence] should come first in all things.
Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc.
by ToValueFunfetti on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @02:55PM
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"[X] teaches that [Y] should come first in all things" applies to pretty much every ideology. Superintelligence safety is very much opposed to superintelligence sovereignity or glory; mostly they want to maximally limit its power and demonize it
Re:Safe Superintelligence Inc.
by amirhirsch on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:38PM
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Calvinism for Transcendentalist techno-utopians -- an Asimovian Reformation of Singulatarianism