It's why popularizing the meme of Roko's Basilisk has been 10,000x more helpful in fighting their bullshit than any long point by point dissection from someone like me could be
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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 …
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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
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Replying to @arthur_affect @merrickdeville and
Doesn't anyone with a basis of math literacy realize that this is an extremely unlikely outcome and that diminishing return means it will certainly converge somewhere, maybe higher than humans, but not god-level?
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Replying to @AnneOneamous @arthur_affect and
yes, but that's not these guys (even though the closest they do to productive work would be classed as mathematics)
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Replying to @davidgerard @arthur_affect and
They are Silicon Valley homebrew philosophers, and they don't have basic math literacy? What are they, pure marketing department that focus on technobabble? Sad sad world.
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Replying to @AnneOneamous @davidgerard and
Nothing wrong about not caring for math. And maybe you can have some worthwhile take on philosophy without it, maybe. But **Silicon Valley** homebrew philosopher without math literacy? That doesn't sound good...
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Replying to @AnneOneamous @davidgerard and
Have you not seen the COVID-19 takes from viral growth marketers?
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Replying to @ArsonAtDennys @notscottsiskind and
Also their favorite economist Robin Hanson literally advocated DELIBERATELY INFECTING PEOPLE with it.
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We haven't banged on the drum nearly hard enough about how the UK's early "herd immunity" policy was clearly because of Dominic Cummings, and Dominic Cummings very obviously got it from Robin Hanson
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