I just wrapped up an hour long video over on youtube by Taylor Lorenz called Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
This is a stunning piece of work, even if you have known about Hans Morovec and Mencius Moldbug for many years, as I have.
It lays out the foundations of this pack of dystopian ideologies, worldviews, and philosophies (loosely referred to as accelerationism), from their origins in the late 1960s all the way up through today. It tracks the movement(s) over the years as they have evolved into one of the single largest threats to humanity in existence.
I am sure they would love for me to see the AI as that threat, but ironically, I don't; they are the direct threat. The sociopathy they have adopted as a side dish to outsized success has poisoned their minds to a belief that biological humanity should first pour every effort into making a superintelligent machine to run the world, if you will, more effectively and efficiently than is possible for natural humanity, and directly participate in the development of that superintelligent machine's absorption of, and eventual complete replacement of, humanity. Add to this their dubbing this machine the evolutionary product of humanity, and so, as the narrative goes, becoming the next form of humanity, replacing the current crop of biologicals just as surely as we (somehow allegedly) vanquished the neanderthal.
Much as Taylor Lorenz proclaims in her video, I will proclaim myself a technologist, and this is why:
The very word 'technology' was coined to describe an investment algorythm. It was a mathematical tool desigend to produce a beneficial effect for its creator. Technology, though never called that before the creation of this investment algorythm, has always been about improving the human condition for the human that created that technology. It almost always gave the creator/inventor a physical and material advantage against some life-threatening concern. Otherwise, it was either practice or art. It's perhaps not a stretch to say that technology is the very fucking thing that makes us human.
Forgive my rant; the content is the point. What is bad here is not an effort to build a super smart machine -- what is bad is that there is a tiny, statistically insignificant number of living people who think that it is worthwile to burn down the planet and the biological human race to accomplish this goal as quickly as possible. The rationalizations for this are numerous, and most are self-fulfilling prophesies.
Watch that video. It is terrifying, intriguing, thought provoking, and motivating on many levels. Great job Ms. Lorenz, it is no wonder that you are no darling of the techbros.
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