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Turns out the Torment Nexus was just democratizing Venture Capital's desire for infinite growth.
by drakythe 11mo ago
Turns out the Torment Nexus was just democratizing Venture Capital's desire for infinite growth.
- tdeck 11mo agoThat's an uncharitable take. Those VCs care very deeply about society, that's why they're funding so much research into the Torment Singularity (and giving so many talks about it) and making sure that the Right People get the Torment Nexus first so "we" can decide how it gets used.
- giraffe_lady 11mo agoThe paperclip maximizer is us.
- gnarlouse 11mo agoUnironically: we worry about the ASI control problem but can't even reign in our billionaires
- lunar_mycroft 11mo agoI look at it more like "the fact that we can't align humans/human institutions strongly suggests we won't be able to align something as alien as AGI is likely to be"
- katabasis 11mo agoIt's capitalism – the true "artificial intelligence" that has been organizing human life for the last ~200 years or so.
- zitsarethecure 11mo agoIt always was.
- DougN7 11mo agoI misread your comment as being about Vulture Capital. I think I like that :)
- honkostani 11mo ago[dead]
- lioeters 11mo agoSeeking VC funding now for OpenTormentNexus: Democratize the nightmare.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 11mo agoHas any big-tech company every used "Torment Nexus" unironically as some new project name, or any startup used is their company/product name? I feel its close if it hasn't happened already. I mean the unironic use.
- jfil 11mo agoPalantir