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user-inactivated  ·  3957 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Google buys AI startup DeepMind

Unfriendly AI/kneejerk anti-transhumanism.

And, I guess you could say both, to an extent. Democrats, using the term literally, and poli-scis in general tend to worship democracy as an ideal rather than acknowledging it as a flawed answer to faulty human nature. Egalitarianism strikes me as slightly ridiculous, product of misguided need to "fix" society -- but at a macro level it's an idea that's done a lot of good things.

Voting is a crapshoot.





JakobVirgil  ·  3957 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No not at all my sympathies are with the monsters it is unfair to them to make them. There a Gnostic idea that God sinned by creating us. I think in a secular way that is what we would be doing.

I also thing that GAI would be as useful as a jetpack.

user-inactivated  ·  3957 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    No not at all my sympathies are with the monsters it is unfair to them to make them. There a Gnostic idea that God sinned by creating us. I think in a secular way that is what we would be doing.

Neat -- I read a lot of future-blog stuff, mostly over-optimistic silliness but occasionally interesting -- never seen this view particularly, or at least never seen it mentioned in a Gnostic context.

Certainly when we think of AI we think of benefit to us or detriment to us, not otherwise.