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Agi Ruin And The Road To Iconoclasm

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When I was younger and concluded LessWrong was a religion I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what kind of religion it was so I could make it better. I eventually gravitated towards Calvinism as a model because of the grim rigor in Yudkowsky’s cosmology. But I think to historians of philosophy and religion1 LessWrong rationality will primarily be compared to Calvinism for its iconoclasm. Right now this isn’t obvious because they think they’re fighting an alien agency, that when they say they hate intelligence, capability and agency they mean they hate them in machines based on ‘inscrutable matrices’, not people. But as the shoggoth thesis becomes increasingly untenable with the next generation of architectures based on radically more interpretable methods like latent diffusion and retrieval, it will become obvious they despise these traits in all beings. What is not yet commonly understood is that data is just distilled compute from the environment. The mutual information is hig

Agi Ruin And The Road To Iconoclasm John David Pressman August 28, 2023 When I was younger and concluded LessWrong was a religion I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what kind of religion it was so I could make it better. I eventually gravitated towards Calvinism as a model because of the grim rigor in Yudkowsky’s cosmology. But I think to historians of philosophy and religion 1 LessWrong rationality will primarily be compared to Calvinism for its iconoclasm . Right now this isn’t obvious because they think they’re fighting an alien agency, that when they say they hate intelligence, cap

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