TL;DR:
I rant a bunch about how the silly eschatology of Yudkowsky and his cult have been hijacked by monopolistic corporate goons to push generative AI. Figured y’all might be interested.
TL;DR:
I rant a bunch about how the silly eschatology of Yudkowsky and his cult have been hijacked by monopolistic corporate goons to push generative AI. Figured y’all might be interested.
it’s good to know that e.g. our good friend Charlie has the correct perspective on these bozos
Another one who has written critically about the Singularity is Ken MacLeod, in his Fall Revolution series. Basically, the 1%-eters upload, eff off to Jupiter, and EMP-bomb the rest of the solar system in when their simulations run amuck.
Sigh added to the list. (I already enjoyed his corp wars stories, the addition of reactionaries including the minority reactionary felt so topical)
The Fall Revolutions books are quite old. I didn’t really get into the Corp War trilogy.
Newton’s Wake is also a nice commentary on a hard takeoff singularity where the dominant faction is a Glaswegian crime gang.
Now there is a concept, the Glaswegian crime gang singularity.
@Soyweiser @gerikson
Are ice cream vans involved?
Charlie always comes to mind when I say I want to read better sci-fi — he’s very high on my reading list once I get through the stack of material I’ve gathered for the next draft of A Brief Primer on Technofascism
Yeah, I thought about bringing his ideas up more as examples (definitely seen him pop in Sneerclub a few times), but I’ve got no idea if he would want to be even more prominent in this conversation than he already is. And the post was already more than long enough.