Taking a stand against your own species is a level of cuckoldry that goes way, way, way, beyond mere neoconservatism
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So... I've been thinking about this for a while... and assuming Land isn't doing some fancy rhetorical magic... (1) Capitalism is not separable from human goals, (2) AI will not need capitalism, (3) ergo, Land is wrong.
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Not even wrong
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The only situation under which AI+capitalism make sense is if biological humans are using the two as a substrate. So maybe Land wants us to speed up the switch to that substrate.
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There is a meme-vs-gene dichotomy at play. I happen to think humanity is genes over memes, but machine transhumanists think humans are memes over genes. A full “upgrade” will erase us biologically, which means I (a biological being) have no reason to care about my descendants.
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I doubt humanity could ever be erased. All it would take is a few people choosing to remain human
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This will be resolved using cults. There will be a cult of “primitivists” and a cult of “machine accelerationists.” The latter will dissolve into silicon goo. The former will have some chance of surviving.
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Scarcity is one of the things that give us dignity. Ten thousand electronic copies of Einstein devalue Einstein as a being. Though artificial scarcity could be ensured through some kind of blockchain-like tech.
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I'm afraid I'm going to need a citation for this one. Pretty sure
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Here's hoping someone figures out a way to make computronium work for us.
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Silence, human. Your brain is corrupted by social media. Robots are your friends. Just look at this smile and feel relaxed.pic.twitter.com/AjJCwsIJiD
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You're over thinking this. Land isn't in a position to *do* much; his aesthetic preferences are informative of the gap between human moral desires and the empirical outcomes of human interests
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We should just merge with robotics and AI
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https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/949514613883678721?s=19 … I think you're being unfair in your reading of the professor.
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Speak for yourself, I’m an Enlightened Being
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