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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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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2/ also, I can't say this enough: the only way Iain Banks could make fully automated luxury communism work was to posit b̶e̶n̶e̶v̶o̶l̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶s̶ sinless AIs to run the whole thing and keep humans in check absent that, communism will always work about as well as it has
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
this hadn't occurred to me but now that you mention it
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