Dewald

On AI, society, heroism, meaning-making, the end of the world and the beginning of infinity.

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@CanadaGoose911 That is not why it is inevitable - but it is inevitable. We are in a Moloch Trap dynamic at the level of nation states, AI labs, market competitors, and individuals.

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@hi_personality this is doing all kinds of things to my brain

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@TrueSlazac “One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to the majority.”
— Nicolas Chamfort

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@MengTo Can't wait for these to become inhabitable VR worlds so that one can literally be embodied inside the game with your co-players!

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@iruletheworldmo worst is that ppl basing their worldviews off of Zitron's punditry are going to suffer real-world harms which could have been avoided if they had taken the technological developments seriously before it was too late

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@levie It's like a select few has gained access the arcane hidden knowledge, and are now as sorcerers

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@trq212 @chrislakin on the money

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@levelsio worst thing is, you probably can!

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@ThePolomolo problem is the employees lobbing slop grenades at each other

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@MTSlive the innermost loop

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@JSeyff He is crystalising himself as the meme of the Ridiculous Man for the entire future lightcone of humanity

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@GregoryConti19 But contrariwise, AI will give more leverage to the already-intelligent, and increase the gini of abilities. The more you know, the more you can use the models to manifest your will and expand your mind. The less you know, the less you can use it for.

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@Cristina_AC_X Yet this is the lowest relevance that AI will ever have

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@matt_slotnick @somewheresy If there was such a thing as an anti-expert, Ed would be it

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@CynicalPublius Make no mistake, almost all existing law firms will collapse in the coming decade lest they radically reinvent around AI

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@iamkylebalmer The Bitter Lesson comes for all domains

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@vanschneider Eventually one realises that the only sensible thing to do in the face of the Singularity is 100x your ambitions and embark on the biggest hero's journey you possibly can

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@MTSlive 4th option: companies become superintelligent self-organising Minds, and the best we can hope for us to be useful to them as emmissaries or (often secret) agents.
- cf. Contact and Special Circumstances in the Culture series

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@SMB_Attorney the harnesses will eat the world

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Once the machines can do nearly everything we are currently paid to do, those of us who will not be luxuriating or disappear into a digital oblivion will broadly become either (i) conductors of intelligence, collaboratively directing great orchestras of agents towards ends worth pursuing; (ii) makers of meaning, sustaining the purposes, relations, rituals and communities that make life worth living; or (iii) master craftsmen, whose artful work is prized precisely because a human hand made it. Or some combination. Broadly these respectively align with the pursuit of the eternal virtues of Truth, Goodness and Beauty.