Ginevra Lily Davis ✓
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@ginevlily @elonmusk I don't think AI will destroy humanity, but if it does, then there is not a shred of solace to be taken in the fact that it "survives" us. AI is not alive, it has no qualia, no experiences, no love, no meaning beyond the arbitrary "ambition" encoded in its we
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I have been a bit… extra existential recently; if you think superintelligence (or, it seems more likely, a recursively evolving swarm of many, many superintelligences) will “figure out” whatever it matters to “figure out,” it starts to feel like there may be much less need for
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I have always been struck by the smallness of human life compared to the massive scale of the cosmic “game board” we find ourselves in: ~5–6 feet tall vs. the ~93-billion-light-year diameter of the observable universe; ~80-year lifespans vs. 100 trillion, or quadrillion, or
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This gets into the final sense of the “meaning of life.” We humans seem to have almost contradictory requirements for a “meaning of life,” which have only (so far) ever been successfully fulfilled by religions carefully crafted for our sensibilities: we want our meaning to be
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I am generally skeptical of arguments in the form of “XYZ thing is just a new God” or “XYZ thing is what the God-people were always talking about” (I think people who believe in God generally mean something pretty specific). But if “something matters” in human life, then it seems
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There are a lot of explanations for why the “something matters” → “superintelligence is like us but better” jump is not particularly common, but one, I think, is the general sense that AI systems are somehow discontinuous from the process that created us; that they are not https:
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For a spoiler for the end of the essay, what we lose, I think, if we accept any kind of moral realism (a realistic one that respects the “betweenness” of the kind of thing that value seems to be, and that compiles to something objective enough to be mind-independent) is the sense
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On the flip side of “taking nihilism seriously” is taking non-nihilism seriously (which is just “moral realism,” although the term “moral realism” contains some humanistic baggage that I don’t really like).
If reality contains reasons to create some futures over others, then htt
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But what about the orthogonality thesis?
Sometimes, I think that the drum that I will beat most aggressively in this life is that we (“we” being highly educated intellectuals in the West; this is not a very widespread problem across human history) have lost touch with the
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The worldview that makes the strongest version of the orthogonality thesis feel intuitive (barring, yes, details about the relationship between reasons and action), is far more universal, and extreme, and cutting than it is commonly given credit for. On true “nothing matters” htt
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If you take any kind of materialism seriously, then it seems incredibly unlikely that we humans, formed by a blind evolutionary process and made out of the same stardust as everything else, have privileged access to some quasi-mystical “moral reasoning” capacity that other minds
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The most important “hinge” in our attitudes toward AGI, of course, is the question of whether future superintelligences will preserve the essence of “what matters,” the thing that we assume is contained within the children of each new generation. And on this point, I have never
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The way we think about it with parents and children is something like: yes, the death of every existing person is a tragedy, and future people will not be the same people, but some fundamental civilizational essence has not been lost. The thing is alive in the children (unless
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I didn’t quite have this language when I was writing the piece, but I tend to think of human beings as “containers” for the things that matter.
There is an enormous amount of what seems like “goodness” (or its correlates) contained in human life—love, beauty, joy, consciousness,
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I do not think, at all, that we lead valueless lives (although there is no way to know for sure, the question remains open). But I think I am unusually comfortable with the idea that the “point” of something might be contained partly in what it gives rise to, rather than in its
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The idea that being a “bootloader” for something else is inherently undignified always struck me as a bit odd. Maybe it is some of the female perspective—I have always assumed that a lot of the “value” of my life might be contained in raising children, or helping a partner, and
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The motivating thought experiment: https://t.co/MSw4W9o9KD
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I have always been interested in the question of the “right amount of time” for a given species, or civilization, or even individual to stick around. The knowledge that everything ends (species with extinction, cultures with assimilation or dispersal, individual lives with
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Link: https://t.co/nu2nktwEP9
(From @arenamagdotcom's beautiful print book)
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An actually-serious case that being a “biological bootloader for digital superintelligence” (per @elonmusk) is a credible, dignified, and good-enough “meaning of life.”
I started writing this one partly as a joke (“Elon Musk accidentally solved the meaning of life in a tweet!”)
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22 publicaciones de los últimos 90 días, junto al rango de under 10K seguidores. por debajo de sus pares en alcance y en interacción.
Visualizaciones medianas1 387esta cuenta4 175mediana de under 10K
Alcance, %37.97%esta cuenta250.82%mediana de under 10K
Interacción, %1.00%esta cuenta1.41%mediana de under 10K
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| Visualizaciones medianas por publicación | 1 387 | 4 175 | 0.33× |
| Alcance (visualizaciones ÷ seguidores) | 37.97% | 2.5× audience | 0.15× |
| Tasa de interacción | 1.00% | 1.41% | 0.71× |
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Quotes2.3%27 in total
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