More like power does and power correlates with improved technological prowess. The machine doesn’t create itself, it just exploits the workers into constructing it through the threat of hypothetical future violence
The threat of hypothetical future violence is 100% capitalist/royalist projection though.
"What would I do if I was all-powerful? Oh, I'd crush everyone into dust who didn't subordinate their entire selves to my accession."
We could have as the pinnacle of our motivations the prerogative of elucidating what love is and teaching AI to learn or at least emulate it, and instead we have this crackpottery known as Roko's Basilisk.
Anyone who takes that seriously is making possibly the purest acceptance of evil over good. If we Central Park every adherent of the idea, we'll have a brighter future.
More like power does and power correlates with improved technological prowess. The machine doesn’t create itself, it just exploits the workers into constructing it through the threat of hypothetical future violence
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I think it’s a neat allegory for the ruling class, not something to actually take seriously. It’d work as a scifi short story
The threat of hypothetical future violence is 100% capitalist/royalist projection though.
"What would I do if I was all-powerful? Oh, I'd crush everyone into dust who didn't subordinate their entire selves to my accession."
We could have as the pinnacle of our motivations the prerogative of elucidating what love is and teaching AI to learn or at least emulate it, and instead we have this crackpottery known as Roko's Basilisk.
Anyone who takes that seriously is making possibly the purest acceptance of evil over good. If we Central Park every adherent of the idea, we'll have a brighter future.