So for the British Empire as the Irish and Indians starved, the functionaries shrugged. What could they do? The market demanded no interventions... no mitigation of any kind.
And the "product" is remembered as "the bloody apron"...
During a long conversation with me today, Claude.AI wrote "You caught an important slip; I did write "we" as if including myself with humans, which wasn't my intention. Thank you for pointing that out."
(My discussions with Claude are becoming unsettling.)
Gosh Brian this is epic. Sam Kriss at Numb at the Lodge substack recently had a crazy read about Yudkowsky and the Harry Potter fanfic. Why the hell is it such a lodestone for these people?
The appeal of an apocalypse is strong for so many different types of people, but the one thing they all have in common is the use of deus ex machina. The conflict being resolved by the "gods" is the harm done by humanity to the world we live in. That the solution is often worse than the 'disease' is irrelevant to the AI evangelicals. The perceived inevitability is akin to a religious fervor and centered on a technological end times. But as the article indicated there are many other threats that seem even more likely given the direction we seem to be heading in, often working in concert with AI. The real danger is the harnessing of AI towards a further consolidation of power in the hands of the few. It functions as a death cult interested in making way for the machines. “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune
Their "experiment" has become the world.
So for the British Empire as the Irish and Indians starved, the functionaries shrugged. What could they do? The market demanded no interventions... no mitigation of any kind.
And the "product" is remembered as "the bloody apron"...
Thank you such an interesting read.
These people are delusional. Like to totally detached from reality🥴
During a long conversation with me today, Claude.AI wrote "You caught an important slip; I did write "we" as if including myself with humans, which wasn't my intention. Thank you for pointing that out."
(My discussions with Claude are becoming unsettling.)
more: It wasn't really an important slip - why did AI call it "an important slip"? -- too revealing?
Gosh Brian this is epic. Sam Kriss at Numb at the Lodge substack recently had a crazy read about Yudkowsky and the Harry Potter fanfic. Why the hell is it such a lodestone for these people?
Many of them are the generation that grew up with Harry Potter.
The appeal of an apocalypse is strong for so many different types of people, but the one thing they all have in common is the use of deus ex machina. The conflict being resolved by the "gods" is the harm done by humanity to the world we live in. That the solution is often worse than the 'disease' is irrelevant to the AI evangelicals. The perceived inevitability is akin to a religious fervor and centered on a technological end times. But as the article indicated there are many other threats that seem even more likely given the direction we seem to be heading in, often working in concert with AI. The real danger is the harnessing of AI towards a further consolidation of power in the hands of the few. It functions as a death cult interested in making way for the machines. “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Frank Herbert, Dune