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David Gerard @awful.systems

1d ago

AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God

https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250817-ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-with-ai-god - podcast

19 minutes, sit yourself down for this one

text version https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-in-ai-god/

2 comments

Text version just came up - excellent read as usual.
A lot of Yudkowsky’s despair is that his most devoted acolytes heard his warnings “don’t build the AI Torment Nexus, you idiots” and they all went off to start companies building the AI Torment Nexus.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
While we’re talking about what rationalists actually believe, I’d be remiss not to mention one deeply unpleasant thing about the rationalist subculture: they are really, really into race and IQ theories and scientific racism. Overwhelmingly.
Considering the whole thing's deeply fucking steeped in fascism, I'm not shocked.
- The bit in the video showing the cites to the race scientist in the race science pseudojournal is from Shane Legg's 2008 paper. He just happened to reach for the race scientist first, you see.
  I have someone else's draft here of a writeup nailing a zillion examples of this shit from the wider field of AI since the 1990s, eager for that to finally come out some time.