Fair enough; I just wanted to make it explicit that that question has basically nothing to do with anything else in the thread. I mean, Viliam was saying “so it might be a good idea to do such-and-such about superhumanly capable AI” and you came in and said “aha, that kinda pattern-matches to communism. Are you defending communism?” and then said oh, by the way, I’m only interested in communism in the case where there is no superhumanly capable AI.
But, well, trolls gonna troll, and you’ve already said trolling is your preferred mode of political debate.
Well, the kinda-sorta OP phrased the issue this way:
If the choice is between giving each human a 1⁄7000000000 of the universe, or giving the whole universe to Elon Musk (or some other person) and letting everyone else starve
...and that set the tone for the entire subthread :-P
Fair enough; I just wanted to make it explicit that that question has basically nothing to do with anything else in the thread. I mean, Viliam was saying “so it might be a good idea to do such-and-such about superhumanly capable AI” and you came in and said “aha, that kinda pattern-matches to communism. Are you defending communism?” and then said oh, by the way, I’m only interested in communism in the case where there is no superhumanly capable AI.
But, well, trolls gonna troll, and you’ve already said trolling is your preferred mode of political debate.
Well, the kinda-sorta OP phrased the issue this way:
...and that set the tone for the entire subthread :-P