the EAs have access to so much money that other orgs have to dance to their tune, and are discovering the professionals think the EAs are fucking nutters

the comments are darling also

  • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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    24 days ago

    how do we get people to take our concerns about being paperclipped by the acausalrobotgod seriously?

    If people have wrong beliefs or don’t take things seriously that should be taken seriously (e.g. space property rights), just tell them. Reasonable people update on reasonable arguments.

    Space property rights.

    x-risk-pill

    …

    At least this article exposes quite well how the EA stuff about animal welfare is used as a front/greenwashing(ish) sort of thing.

    • lurker@awful.systemsEnglish
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      24 days ago

      things that should be taken seriously (e.g. space property rights)

      I don’t know man, I think there are bigger fish to fry then who owns what in outer space

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Yeah it is nuts, also very funny that in the book im reading which mocks the rationalists, the rationalist goal is to own Jupiter or something.

          • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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            22 days ago

            Technically that is unclear this is what he says:

            ‘No doubt it is,’ Caplan conceded, ‘but I don’t want the superintelligence to come into existence before I’m uploaded. It’s very important to me that I’m the first transcendent being in this stellar system. I can’t risk having to compete with another resource-hungry entity; I have personal plans that require at least one Jovian mass of computronium.’

            Before

            spoiler

            Dying of a side effect of his life extension experiments a few decades later. ( Or more freezing himself). One of the protagonists quips, at least now Jupiter is safe.