[ExI] karp at reagan ndf

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] karp at reagan ndf

 

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:01 PM <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> > wrote:

Mike my apologies sir, I failed your test.  I tried to spin it positively and just couldn’t get there.  Let me sleep on it and try again tomorrow.

>…I appreciate the attempt. 

 

 

1.	>…it was not a test. Maybe it's linguistic pedantry that can be dismissed... 
2.	 >…perhaps skip over the troublesome near future…

 

 

 

Mike I hafta keep reminding myself what we have been posting here for three decades: the singularity has some enormous risks and challenges, but when you think about it, a singularity event is our only plausible way out of this life alive.  We only have a short time in this carbon-based existence, a fact I have been reminded of in a jarring way in the past year with some medical challenges.  We have long recognized we are a warlike species, with competition evolved into our brains.  Our genes just love competition, it feels so natural to us, ja?  Well, competition in sports is about playing together and having fun but the point is to beat the other feller.  Business collectively supplies the needs of the proles, good for business and good for us, but they compete for the bucks.  We are the beings, shaped by the mechanisms of evolutionary psychology and memetic competition who are designing AI.  Eliezer has long pointed out the risks of making it too much like us.  We get that.  

 

So… we have these risk, a troublesome near future as you termed it.  But still, it is our only known path outta this life alive.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

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