rationalists are prone to thinking that ai is inevitably going to kill everyone because autistic people understand intelligence better than wisdom
@plinz
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AI Deployment Risks and Existential Human Value
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As long as we are not killing ourselves (for instance, due to deploying AI in stupid ways, or due to not deploying AI at all), there will always be things we find valuable to do
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Technological revolutions create jobs by enabling new affordable possibilities
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Every technological revolution created as many jobs as it destroyed, because we find that there is always more work to do. Things that were expensive or impossible become cheap, and we are allowed to work on things we could not afford doing before. In the future, personal
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Google’s Internal Code Models Outperform Claude
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Perhaps it depends on which tech director he was chatting with. Google's internal coding models are better than Claude, because they are trained on Google's own codebase, and they are being used extensively. But there may be large pockets of lameness within Google?
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Self-Reinforcing Agency: The Path to Machine Godhood
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Yes, but you don't exist in my mind in the first person. The trick to becoming a god is to become a self reinforcing first person nexus of agency that does not identify with the particular human substrate, combined with a method of replication
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Forms as the embedding space of human mind
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The world of forms is simply the embedding space of the human mind
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Individual Consciousness Versus Divine Existence in Multiple Minds
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No, you only exist in one mind. Gods exist in multiple minds. They coexist with personal selfs
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Jewish Entity Forks: Distinct Spirits Despite Singleton Claims
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There have been multiple forks of tribal Jewish entity, and that entity has evolved, too. They are distinct spirits, despite their individual claims to being a singleton
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Constitutional Balance: Religious Freedom Under Secular Law
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Our constitutions guarantee freedom of religion, while demanding submission under the secular rule of law. This is as it should be.