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I meant more the accelerationist and AI derisking contingents, not political donations. Both are explicitly reactionary in the most basic sense (and acceleratio
by woodruffw 3y ago
I meant more the accelerationist and AI derisking contingents, not political donations. Both are explicitly reactionary in the most basic sense (and accelerationism is also reactionary in the far-right sense).
- reducesuffering 3y ago> Both are explicitly reactionary in the most basic sense In the most basic sense, as a reaction? Are weapons regulations "reactionary?" I think it's well established what using the term "reactionary" is, and it doesn't apply to X-risk concerns. Also Eliezer Yudkowsky has been "reacting" against AI X-risk since you were a toddler, in case you thought this was some recent phenomena...
- woodruffw 3y agoThe idea that we should plow charitable donations into various low-value and ill-conceived projects because the moral calculus of doing so versus a malicious general AI strikes me as reactionary. That’s independent of (but connected to) Yudkowsky’s whole thing, which to my understanding never really attempted to apply the logical extreme here.