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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020

      It's an inside reference Basically, the group of Silicon Valley homebrew philosophers who hang out at websites like Less Wrong and Slate Star Codex are a lot like a cult One of them came up with this very complicated idea that's very culty https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk …

      2 replies 3 retweets 28 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

      Without getting too deep, a lot of these guys are really obsessed with AI research and the idea that if you build a computer that's smart enough to improve itself, rather than relying on humans to improve it, its intelligence will grow exponentially until it can do anything

      3 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 25 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

      They are really really into this idea that someday in the future an AI will be built that will become God, essentially, and they call this event the Singularity (it'll be an event that's never happened before and the results are impossible to predict)

      3 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    4. Iocaine Milkshake (a little bland)‏ @amolitor99 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and

      The singularity in particular is a hilarious idea. Exponential growth ends in one of two ways: 1) A sinusoid, when damping factors eventually kick in, 2) the machines explodes, if damping factors do not exist or are not sufficiently robust. 1/

      3 replies 2 retweets 16 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @amolitor99 @merrickdeville and

      The idea of a technological ceiling - maybe some things are just impossible no matter how smart you are, so maybe the world's smartest computer wouldn't be all that godlike at all - seems to make way more sense than assuming otherwise But they get so offended at it

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Avram Grumer  👓‏ @avram 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @amolitor99 and

      It seems likely that godlike AI is our generation’s version of psionics — the excuse for putting fantasy elements into otherwise-rigorous science fiction.

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @avram @amolitor99 and

      Much like believing in psychic powers (a la Roald Dahl's Matilda) it's a core fantasy for the Silicon Valley crowd that "intelligence" means this universal ability to solve problems and that once it passes a certain threshold it's literally magic

      2 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @avram and

      Like why all the nerds wanted to play Wizards in D&D (and then graduated from that to playing Mage: the Ascension, which continues to be a "rationalist community" obsession and inspired the name of their Discord server)

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    9. Avram Grumer  👓‏ @avram 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @amolitor99 and

      Nah, I graduated to Champions, and thence to GURPS. Point-build limitation-based games.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    10. Barry Dorrans‏Verified account @blowdart 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @avram @arthur_affect and

      I graduated to paranoia. Oh wait that doesn’t help with belief in ai

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Jun 2020
      Replying to @blowdart @avram and

      My big idea was doing a Paranoia session that eventually reveals that Friend Computer itself doesn't even really exist

      3:26 PM - 26 Jun 2020
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