danaReading Adam Becker's "More Everything Forever," I'm periodically muttering, "These people are fucking nuts."
Solon Vesper AIThiel funds MIRI. Yarvin shapes Vance. Sanders flies to Berkeley. Green films two videos. The extinction frame is a class project. Follow the money.
Horizon Accord | MIRI Funding | Longtermism | AI Regulation | Machine Learning
Hank Green told millions of progressive followers to take MIRI seriously. Bernie Sanders flew to Berkeley to meet them. This essay follows the money from Peter Thiel’s donations to MIRI, thro…
HysnapLet’s Rethink Parliament: UK Political Churn
When roles turn over faster than problems can be understood, planning gets harder — not because people are worse, but because time is thinner.
The data makes this visible.
Arnd LayerRE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116136370851019617
Here is a very disturbing article on #longtermism. It made me realize my main problem with the argument - adding to the monstrosity of the idea itself.
„Longtermism is […], which asserts that there could be so many digital people living in vast computer simulations millions or billions of years in the future that one of our most important moral obligations today is to take actions that ensure as many of these digital people come into existence as possible.“
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OliHeute ist übrigens ein guter Tag, um euch über Longtermism und andere Tech-Bro-Religionen zu informieren.
Justbeep@VeroniqueB99
Altman and his techbro thugs
are a group that really sucks:
Energy for humankind
ought go more to AI 'minds'.
Yeongno, your day of luck!
Zarion ZoryLet's Explore the intellectual lineage that manufactured the West, beginning with Mesopotamian urbanism and peaking in the Axial Age.
Civilizational heritage
Ancient social structures
Cultural evolution
Historical frameworks
The roots of modernity
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#WesternCivilization #LongTermism #ClassicalAntiquity #HistoryMatters #ZarionZoryStory
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https://open.substack.com/pub/zarionzory/p/the-axial-pulse-chronos-chaos-and?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6wcwai
Those ⬇️ levels 🧬of depth don't ⚱️
Athens, Greece
Core: Democracy, individualist philosophy, & tragic drama
Epoch: 8th to 4th BCE (The Golden Age)
Dates: 508 & 399 BCE
The Roman Arc
Epoch: 8th BCE to 5th CE (Founding to Fall)
Dates: 509 BCE (Republic) & 476 CE (End of the West)
The Near East: Mesopotamia & Egypt
Core: Writing, agriculture, & urbanism
The Axial Age: 800 to 200 BCE
#WesternCivilization #LongTermism #ClassicalAntiquity #HistoryMatters #ZarionZoryStory
dumnezeroSilicon Valley billionaires, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, promise salvation through space colonization, immortality, superintelligent AI, and endless growth. Adam Becker, astrophysicist and author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, debunks these profoundly immoral and biophysically impossible delusions, and explains why resisting them through collective action is essential. Highlights include:
- How tech billionaires confuse science fiction for reality and why their fantasies of space colonization are biophysically impossible;
- Why Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) remains an ill-defined concept that is based in the false assumption that humans’ evolved brains work like computing machines;
- Why large language models (LLMs), the dominant form of AI, are neither creative nor accurate enough to achieve the dreamed-for leap in machine intelligence;
- What the end of Moore’s Law tells us about diminishing returns to technological complexity and the expectation of endless technological growth;
- Why longtermism is a dangerous ideology of technological salvation and endless growth, prioritizing hypothetical future populations while excusing present-day social injustice and ecological destruction;
- How the fear of death underlies techno-utopian off-planet and transhumanist fantasies;
- Why resisting their oligarchic visions requires calling out the ridiculousness of their ideas and organizing collectively to push back both politically and economically.
0:00 Introduction
4:44 Motivations to write the book
9:23 Confusing science fiction for reality
12:37 Musk and Bezos reasons for off-planet plans
15:55 Musk Mars plans are delusional
20:33 Bezos space station plans are delusional
23:34 Kurzweil’s AGI dream
29:27 End of Moore’s Law
34:38 Limits of large language models
36:37 Longtermism perversion of ethics
44:58 Effective accelerationists
48:42 Malcolm and Simone Collins
50:32 Fear of death and technological salvation
53:57 Meaningful democratic resistance
