If Yudkowsky really thought unfriendly AI was an existential threat to humanity, it would be worth solving even if it meant less time to write speculative fiction
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posted on March 30, 2019 05:42 PM by
u/completely-ineffable
If she wants to save lives so much why won’t she end people’s life to save their lives?
This is why these chuds think politics is the mind-killer: they are completely incapable of grasping anything more complicated than these dumbass zingers from their armchair.
There’s such a basic failure in logic here that I have to point it out. Clearly, AOC is saying that economic injustice perpetuates the environmental issue. So saying “it would be worth solving even if the solution increased economic inequality” is a non-sequitur.
She believes that economic injustice exacerbates the environmental issue, so this isn’t an argument against her position at all. Her position is specifically contrary to the hypothetical. Proposing that “if the exact opposite of her argument were true, then she would be wrong” isn’t an argument, it’s a tautology.
Yudkowsky probably wishes he was half as effective as AOC.
When I talk about rationalists not treating lefty thought with a tenth of the charity they do genuinely fascist thought, this is exactly what I’m talking about. The idea that capitalism and climate change are inextricably linked isn’t some wild-ass idea that’s just inexplicable, it’s a body of thought with evidence and arguments and shit that, even if one ends up disagreeing, one would engage with. Spending even 5 fucking minutes googling “ecosocialism” would be a start. But goddamn rationalists don’t have even the token self-awareness or good faith or charity or whatever to do that.
Somehow these people have a forcefield around them that prevents them from considering that maybe, just maybe, some problems are political. The literal only way to deal with global warming it to have massive public support for dealing with global warming, which is not going to happen if your “solution” involves fucking over the working class.
“Why aren’t any rationalists advocating for blowing up Google/Amazon/Facebook/OpenAI/etc ML labs and executing their engineers? Could it be that they don’t actually think unfriendly AI is an existential risk, hmmm?”
God I hate Geoffrey Miller so much, he calls himself a scientist and look how he speaks
‘Gotcha’s’ are so stupid. So this is on brand for primalpoly.
capitalism causes global warming tho
Oh look a checkmate communists one-off from a dude in the Rationalsphere so amazing so profound wow let’s all suck his dick
^Lesswrong, probably
Has Yudkowsky ever said “we haven’t really solved AI risk until we’ve written futuristic tales about a world where rape is legal”?
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