Hmm, getting downvoted for pointing out that Earth biology is effectively an AI running on Von Neumann machines, in a story whose premise is that Earthlings are the unfriendly AI-in-the-box.
I have to revise some priors, I didn’t expect that of people.
I wish one could immediately assume that such statements are sarcastic and/or tongue-in-cheek, but here some people literally get argued into parting with actual money on the basis of similar assumptions. Asserting the AI into the realm of theology, that won’t help deal with AI, but it will sure help theologians to feel relevant.
So the AI in the Box has to evolve and spawn otherselves to talk to and fuck like our own abiogenesis event. Not a problem.
Hmm, getting downvoted for pointing out that Earth biology is effectively an AI running on Von Neumann machines, in a story whose premise is that Earthlings are the unfriendly AI-in-the-box. I have to revise some priors, I didn’t expect that of people.
Saying obvious stuff but missing the point that a debate is about can get you downvoted on LW.
The thing on which you should update is your mistaken belief that you understood the post that Caledonian2 made.
I wish one could immediately assume that such statements are sarcastic and/or tongue-in-cheek, but here some people literally get argued into parting with actual money on the basis of similar assumptions. Asserting the AI into the realm of theology, that won’t help deal with AI, but it will sure help theologians to feel relevant.