[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book

[John Clark]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:


> *> John, so where have you been, what kindsa stuff interests you these
> days, etc?  All healthy and good in your home?  Last I heard Florida?  No
> hurricane injuries or serious fatalities in that, ja?  You are following
> Eliezer as plenty of us are, I see.  Clarification on the term following:
> reading about what he is doing, not necessarily reading his book, following
> as in following the news on him, not necessarily reading his site.  You
> sound not as skeptical as he is perhaps on the future of AI nor the fate of
> humanity, nor am I.What the heck else?  New hobbies or anything?  John we
> like the human side of you as well as the internet side.*


*Spike, I appreciate your warm welcome back message. I'm thinking of moving
to Arizona but right now I am still in Florida and I'm still pretty healthy
for an old fart. I retired a few years ago from my job as an electrical
engineer and so I have become a "gentleman of leisure", in other words a
bum, but a happy bum who is still lucky enough to be able to maintain a
comfortable lifestyle. I don't think biological humans will be around in 50
years, perhaps not in 5. However I am more optimistic than Eliezer, but
then anybody who is not certain of impending oblivion would be. *

*On that note I'd like to ask the people around here a question, what is
your opinion of Universal Basic Income (UBI),  a government-provided,
unconditional, and periodic cash payment to all residents, regardless of
their work status or income? Just a few years ago the idea would've seemed
absurd but now if there is going to be any hope of biological humans
surviving I think something like it is going to have to be instituted in
the next 10 years, probably in the next 5. The stunning advance in AI
during the last three years has rendered moot many (but not all) of the
political arguments that seemed so important the last time I was on this
list, and that's why I decided to rejoin it. *

* John K Clark *
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