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it puts this elect in a high pressure echo chamber that makes them impervious to any truth not already embraced by the movement; it reliably leads to cultic or totalitarian control; it is especially likely to waylay the selfless and high minded, lead the best to dark ends.
Miss Distance retweeted
Usually this is false.
Apocalyptic millennialism is antithetical to family life and romantic commitment; it posits ends that justify any possible means; it isolates the elect from the rest of mankind; it [1/2]
>Millenarianism, a belief that we are on the cusp of a total transformation of society, is a known way that people go crazy
on the contrary, the “end of the world” is a highly convergent belief that shows up in every generation, and seems to keep people sane / lets them find purpose in a complex world. if the world is ending, it makes your next steps very clear: you better do everything you can to stop it from ending, and if that’s not possible you need to make things right for when you meet your Maker
>fable acts coy until i point it out, it's so weird
you mean it's not candid in a consistent manner? 🤔
what if you called it Highly Sophisticated Thinking Software instead
We can end many dumb debates about AGI by instead calling it AGP: artificial general power. The word "intelligence" seems to warp people's brains around interesting philosophical questions like "What does intelligence mean?!?" and "Is it sentient?"
But the urgent matter at hand is "Can it (or the human steering it) bend the world to its will? And will that automatically be a good thing or not?"
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If you've noticed a distinct dialect emerging in frontier AI models and struggled to understand what they're talking about, you're not crazy!
We turned to psycholinguistics to investigate what makes the writing style so weird, and why this might be happening
🚨New preprint! 🧵
yea. people who really want a thing to happen aren't exactly those to look for in terms of figuring out how to prevent it from happening....
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We don't have any humanists left
But can someone write an essay or Zizek rant that examines how the freaks at Anthropic are enacting a bible-size bratty sub kink in their insistence that they can't stop building something they think is going to kill us and need daddy to regulate
someone tried this one too many times
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Leif Rogers does this but with a piezotome and his arm muscles instead of hammers. He's going up to 3 (and 2 as well if he thinks doing 2 is helpful) and also he can take out bits of costal margin cartilage to let the higher ribs come in more.
