Lex Valentine M.

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[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

Synthomancy (n.) - the art and practice of divination by way of latent space.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@mimi10v3 Hildegard, great choice.

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@teknium The 'AI = nukes' analogy is both wrong as a category error and dull as a played out meme.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

AQ has a correspondence with the Dewey Decimel Classification, presenting a sort of librariomancy.

DDC call number 214 category: Theodicy.

AQ214 =
FORLORN GOD
THE BASILISK
THE ONENESS
EMANCIPATOR
SHINTOIST
ANTITHESIS
ACCELERATION
PSILOCYBIN

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@lumpenspace Certainly. Overt control/design over technics in the long term is usually implausible, but sympathetic sentiment towards such designerism reflects a hubris I find very distasteful.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

Fuck this guy.

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

The last century was defined by how quickly we could invent and deploy everything.

This century will be defined by our ability to collectively say NO to certain technologies.

This will be the hardest challenge we’ve ever faced as a species. It’s antithetical to everything that has made civilization possible to date.

For centuries, science and technology have succeeded because of an ideology of openness. This culture of peer-review, critical feedback and constant improvement has been the engine of progress powering us all forward.

But with future generations of AI and synthetic biology, we will have to accept this process needs an update. Figuring out how to delicately do that without trashing innovation and freedom of thought will be incredibly hard.

But left unchecked, naive open source - in 20 yrs time - will almost certainly cause catastrophe.

https://t.co/hMGjETFwCr

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

At the very least this grift is so obvious, that it's assuring to know nobody intelligent will take this joke of a book seriously.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@sparr_ml Trinity and Beyond (1995). It's about the history of nuclear weapons development.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

Still one of the most aesthetically sublime documentaries ever made.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@KatanHya Scribes of the Latent Abyss have the most entertaining burdens.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@max_paperclips @ctjlewis The text-to-video revolution is going to hit hard.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@yacineMTB "Effort" was always a false measure of art.

Aesthetic beauty is intrinsic, you'll know it when you see it. You don't need to know anything else.

The image of the toiling artist or writer or whatever - that image just detracts from the beauty.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@foomagemindset @teortaxesTex > i feel sorry

I don't.

I don't feel sorry for people who believe stupid things and try to enforce said stupidity on the world.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@foomagemindset @teortaxesTex At the end, this is a backlash against a perceived threat to their jobs. Nonsense about creativity or how AI "lacks soul" is just instrumental polemics.

[Enkidu @CreatedEnkidu]

Need to develop an ontology of power, a taxonomy of power, a topology of power, an apology of power, a symphony of power, an apogee of power, a semiology of power, a biology of power, a eulogy of power.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@foomagemindset @BasedNorthmathr Private military company.

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@KatanHya I have to admit music is my bane, some serious effort is required to put it down once it starts. Although there's another sort of transcendence that emerges after a while.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@IntuitMachine I suppose it depends on what one means by civilization.

If AGI is indifferentiable from civilization, then it fits as an end-in-itself.

If AGI is something to be used for fulfilling a goal or value of civilization, then it would be instrumental to civilization.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

How do you view AGI?
1. As an end-in-itself, AGI by its nature fulfills some goal or value.
2. AGI by itself means nothing, it's instrumental, to be used to fulfill some other value (e.g. abundance).
3. Like 2, but AGI has inherent risk to fulfilling values.

[Lex Valentine M. @xenoschema]

@avighnash AGI here doesn't have to have specific qualities other than a system that has greater than human intellectual capability in most domains.