The difference between a monster and a god is in your point of view, unless it’s a sexless, lifeless husk like the Abrahamic religion’s God, or some other platonic ideal. The cyborg seems likely to be a reference/confusion to the Singularity as Rapture of the Nerds, where we become as gods, a large misunderstanding of what it seems most here hop for, an AI np more conscious than a chair that makes us what we would want to be if we were more what we want to be.
Why ate you spending time on RationalWiki? I know LessWrong has gone downhill but there are still interesting books, and blogs, and people.
Does anyone understand how the mutant-cyborg monster image RationalWiki uses represents Less Wrong? I’ve never understood that.
It’s a “Lava Basalisk”.
EDIT: See here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Template_talk:LessWrong
Picture of Lava Basalisk, as noted by Oscar_Cunningham, linking to the concept of Roko’s Basilisk, which is a large point of interest for RW users.
The difference between a monster and a god is in your point of view, unless it’s a sexless, lifeless husk like the Abrahamic religion’s God, or some other platonic ideal. The cyborg seems likely to be a reference/confusion to the Singularity as Rapture of the Nerds, where we become as gods, a large misunderstanding of what it seems most here hop for, an AI np more conscious than a chair that makes us what we would want to be if we were more what we want to be.
Why ate you spending time on RationalWiki? I know LessWrong has gone downhill but there are still interesting books, and blogs, and people.