The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - new Emile Torres
The Endgame of Edgelord Eschatology - new Emile Torres
Powerful figures in Silicon Valley advocate a new-age religion that sees humanity as a transitional species — one whose time is almost up.
They insist on putting ever more important things (now it’s our souls and minds! lol and lmao) into ever more complex and failure-prone systems, none of these motherfuckers have built or maintained a computer in decades.
How dull. So just because they can't imagine a beautiful world under capitalism, the rest of us are strapped in for their accelerationist, planet poisoning ride to a tech dystopia. Great.
Plan for the extinction of capitalism: you're a terrorist
Plan for the extinction of humanity: you're a prophet
Your post is starting to pull together nebulous clouds of information in my mind, like this:
https://lemmy.zip/post/37216099 made me just realize this and the AI bros insistence that they be allowed to infringe copyright. They plan to live forever and be smarter by supplementing their hybrid brains. Which makes http://www.rantmedia.ca/afternow/episodes.php so much more sinister.
I just need to sit with this for a while.
High Evolutionary: All I wanted to do was to make things perfect.
Rocket: You didn't wanna make things perfect. You just hated things the way they are.
We should be trying to stop this from coming to pass with the urgency we would try to stop a killer asteroid from striking Earth. Why aren’t we?
Wait, what are we trying to stop from coming to pass? Superintelligent AIs? Either I'm missing his point, or he really agrees with the doomers that LLMs are on their way to becoming "superintelligent".