This makes sense and mirrors some of what I’ve been thinking as I reflect on this issue. From the materialistic perspective, it’s just about impossible for us to be here, experiencing love and beauty (not to mention working with and communicating with spiritual forces!). So my hope lies in occult forces steering things accordingly. However, Earth has experienced extinction events in the past and I don’t entirely rule out great disaster resulting from human arrogance. And perhaps there’s even room for something like AGI, soon or when humanity is better prepared after being held back for a sufficiently long time.
Perhaps it was a mistake to post the TIME link. My concern arises not from hysteria in the media, but from a familiarity with and understanding of Yudkowsky. He is a man who deeply understands the potential problems of AI and has largely not had any kind of spotlight placed upon him. It is evident that he has seen this coming for a long time, has worked very hard to try to steer things in a different direction, and is now filled with grief and sadness over the certain (to him) loss of biological life in the near future. I sincerely hope that a sufficiently benevolent and intelligent force/being intervenes in our trajectory towards destruction; and I also think that his position warrants serious cause for concern.
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Re: Occult Repercussions of AGI
Date: 2023-04-04 12:13 am (UTC)Perhaps it was a mistake to post the TIME link. My concern arises not from hysteria in the media, but from a familiarity with and understanding of Yudkowsky. He is a man who deeply understands the potential problems of AI and has largely not had any kind of spotlight placed upon him. It is evident that he has seen this coming for a long time, has worked very hard to try to steer things in a different direction, and is now filled with grief and sadness over the certain (to him) loss of biological life in the near future. I sincerely hope that a sufficiently benevolent and intelligent force/being intervenes in our trajectory towards destruction; and I also think that his position warrants serious cause for concern.