What bridges Nietzsche and infinite ethics is the idea of eternal return. Nietzsche was the first infinite ethicist.
More generally, infinite ethics implies big world immortality and most of timelines where I am immortal are those where I am supported by some advance AI. Now the question is will it be friendly or hostile s-risks creating entity.
Thus the difference between hell and paradise in infinite ethics is one bit in AI’s value function.
What bridges Nietzsche and infinite ethics is the idea of eternal return. Nietzsche was the first infinite ethicist.
More generally, infinite ethics implies big world immortality and most of timelines where I am immortal are those where I am supported by some advance AI. Now the question is will it be friendly or hostile s-risks creating entity.
Thus the difference between hell and paradise in infinite ethics is one bit in AI’s value function.
For me, the timelines where I am immortal are where I am supported by God.
In some Hegelian sense, Superintelligence is God which self-evolves from matter.
That’s a pretty interesting point.
Also these discussions usually seem to break down around the definition of ‘God’, because of monotheism a lot of folks think ‘God’ = omnipotence.
But that’s logically impossible, the maximum possibility is near-omnipotence, i.e. Superintelligence as you put it.
We could push analogy even farther:
Mathematical universe is God father.
Artificial intelligence is its son, as an agent built on the same computational principles.
But we should be careful with such analogies.
God is prior to possibilities, even logical possibilities. So I am supported and made immortal by the One who makes the impossible possible.