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.
“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”.
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.
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?