These projections about the future are nonsensical hallucinations given the immediate threat to life caused by resource mismanagement and authoritarian regimes coopting AI proliferation for evil and greedy reasons.
Agreed. It is absolutely silly to "account for" heat death of Earth. Even if you really want to expand your philosophic horizon to such ludicrously unfathomable scales we should first find a solution to prevent the first likely meteor extinction event. I expect that to happen a 'few' times before we reach the moment of heat death. Especially since theoretically a cataclysmic meteor event is not non-trivial in our life time. In any case an estimated 1000-3000 times before heat death of earth.
“[Bostrom] appears to be less risk averse than Yudkowsky, and hence more willing to subject the entire human population to a nontrivial chance of omnicidal mass death from ASI to secure a hypothetical utopian future in which he gains cyberimmortality by uploading his mind to hardware and superintelligent AI enables posthumans like him to initiate a colonization explosion that floods our future light cone with “digital people” living in huge virtual-reality worlds running on “planet-sized” computers powered by Dyson swarms.”
In short: Bostrom is perfectly willing to wash the blood off of his hands from all that genocide and murder with the jizz of the 10⁵⁸ space coomers fucking eternally in digital space heaven.
I mean, this is Bostrom's schtick. It's ALWAYS been his schtick. He'll do ANYTHING to bathe in the joyful emissions of those 10⁵⁸ space coomers fucking eternally in digital space heaven.
"In fact, most people are already dead who have lived, and the rest of us look set to follow within a few short decades."
There is no point in history where this hasn't always been the case. Boston just made the most banal statement in human history. Whatever sentence came next could only ever hope to become the second most banal statement of all time.
In the year 2025, if someone is more worried about the far future probabilities related to humanity's fate in the far future event of the death of the sun than they are about looming crises like fresh water shortages and subtropical heat waves, I think they've been living on their own private Mount Olympus so long that crucial features of their mental faculties have atrophied to the point where they're no longer competent to do a basic survival priority assessment.
If someone views the key to extending the lifespan of humans as uploading their consciousness to a computer possessing superpowers that thus far only exist as a speculative fantasy--instead of concentrating funding on medical research efforts to eliminate diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, severe paralytic neuromotor conditions, cancer, stroke, and cardiovascular disease--they're showing symptoms of having been imprinted by a severe dissociative emergence reaction.
If someone is prepared to disdain and destroy the bounty and resiliency of the web of life oof this planet because they view the earth as a bank vault and source of minerals to build machines--instead of the life support system of the only spaceship worth living on--they've become so unhinged by toxic wealth syndrome that their condition has degenerated into chronic delusional psychosis.
That's the mildest diagnostic conclusion I can offer.
“Guy who stole ideas from guy who stole ideas from science-fiction says that building dumb, stupid thing we probably can’t build is the right way to go and the other guy is wrong”.
Yeah nailed it. I'm happy people in these comments are seeing through this BS. This is a distraction and a marketing myth. Focus on the harms being done today and right now.
These projections about the future are nonsensical hallucinations given the immediate threat to life caused by resource mismanagement and authoritarian regimes coopting AI proliferation for evil and greedy reasons.
Agreed. It is absolutely silly to "account for" heat death of Earth. Even if you really want to expand your philosophic horizon to such ludicrously unfathomable scales we should first find a solution to prevent the first likely meteor extinction event. I expect that to happen a 'few' times before we reach the moment of heat death. Especially since theoretically a cataclysmic meteor event is not non-trivial in our life time. In any case an estimated 1000-3000 times before heat death of earth.
“[Bostrom] appears to be less risk averse than Yudkowsky, and hence more willing to subject the entire human population to a nontrivial chance of omnicidal mass death from ASI to secure a hypothetical utopian future in which he gains cyberimmortality by uploading his mind to hardware and superintelligent AI enables posthumans like him to initiate a colonization explosion that floods our future light cone with “digital people” living in huge virtual-reality worlds running on “planet-sized” computers powered by Dyson swarms.”
In short: Bostrom is perfectly willing to wash the blood off of his hands from all that genocide and murder with the jizz of the 10⁵⁸ space coomers fucking eternally in digital space heaven.
I mean, this is Bostrom's schtick. It's ALWAYS been his schtick. He'll do ANYTHING to bathe in the joyful emissions of those 10⁵⁸ space coomers fucking eternally in digital space heaven.
"In fact, most people are already dead who have lived, and the rest of us look set to follow within a few short decades."
There is no point in history where this hasn't always been the case. Boston just made the most banal statement in human history. Whatever sentence came next could only ever hope to become the second most banal statement of all time.
In the year 2025, if someone is more worried about the far future probabilities related to humanity's fate in the far future event of the death of the sun than they are about looming crises like fresh water shortages and subtropical heat waves, I think they've been living on their own private Mount Olympus so long that crucial features of their mental faculties have atrophied to the point where they're no longer competent to do a basic survival priority assessment.
If someone views the key to extending the lifespan of humans as uploading their consciousness to a computer possessing superpowers that thus far only exist as a speculative fantasy--instead of concentrating funding on medical research efforts to eliminate diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, severe paralytic neuromotor conditions, cancer, stroke, and cardiovascular disease--they're showing symptoms of having been imprinted by a severe dissociative emergence reaction.
If someone is prepared to disdain and destroy the bounty and resiliency of the web of life oof this planet because they view the earth as a bank vault and source of minerals to build machines--instead of the life support system of the only spaceship worth living on--they've become so unhinged by toxic wealth syndrome that their condition has degenerated into chronic delusional psychosis.
That's the mildest diagnostic conclusion I can offer.
So basically in other words:
“Guy who stole ideas from guy who stole ideas from science-fiction says that building dumb, stupid thing we probably can’t build is the right way to go and the other guy is wrong”.
Am I in the ballpark Émile?
Yes, correct! Lol.
Yeah nailed it. I'm happy people in these comments are seeing through this BS. This is a distraction and a marketing myth. Focus on the harms being done today and right now.
Yudkowskiy and Bostro-the dumb and dumber of philosophy.