I'm reminded of one of Ian Banks' Culture novels, where one infinitely rich society has two teams of people - one putting up monorail pylons, and one tearing them downhttps://twitter.com/FOX5Atlanta/status/1204354713396768768 …
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Tangential question: Is it a widespread meme that the SafeAI/Rationalist/LW crowd are reinventing Christian theology with simulators/AI as a substitute? Or is it just three of us that keep reading each others tweets for reinforcement?
I think it's pretty widespread.
yes?
cc @orthonormalist @St_Rev @sonyasupposedly @eigenrobot @selentelechia @unhygenicmacro @BostonDelendEst
Just started Consider Phlebas yesterday. Timely.
Not to derail too hard but it's important not to lump post-scarce civilisations in with communism. I've always seen The Culture as a fully automated luxury CAPITALIST society. Goes to show the meaninglessness of the association.
I never saw people in the culture owning capital...merely asking The Minds for things?
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