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.

  • gerikson
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      2 years ago

      Sigh added to the list. (I already enjoyed his corp wars stories, the addition of reactionaries including the minority reactionary felt so topical)

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        2 years ago

        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.