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By: An attempt at defining neoreactionaryism | The New International Outlook

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By: Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » Economic Ends

Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » Economic Ends — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:13:47 +0000

[…] controversy are marked by this Michael Anissimov post at More Right (among others), and this post here (among others). Much other relevant writing on the topic within the reactosphere strikes me as […]

By: Peter A. Taylor

Peter A. Taylor — Sat, 30 Nov 2013 02:10:23 +0000

Thanks!

By: Blogospheroid

Blogospheroid — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:04:14 +0000

Hi RSP,

Sorry for the delay in answering. Real life intervened.

Does the spider have a choice? Does it have the intelligence to choose bigger prey? Are there larger animals that trigger the same reaction in the mega spider as the fly does in the spider? There are examples of lower animals moving towards super-stimuli, moths towards a flame. I am not an expert at biology and can’t say.

However, please consider the situation of a designed AI where everything it does is to satisfy its value function, its goal. Its every next step is to satisfy the value function. If it concocts a new way of thinking that can greatly improve its efficiency, but reduces the potential number of futures where it increases the value function, it will not adopt the same. The only way I can see this happening is when the AI is under attack and it calculates that the number of possible futures where it does not “bulk up” show utter devastation to its value function.

You’re mentioning disappointment at the FAI attempt turning bad. Ok. But what can you do today to maximise the possibility of a good world for currently alive humans and all that they hold dear? If you choose to code an indifferent AI or support such an effort, then you’re giving up even that little chance. Why would you want to do that?

I agree that both darwinism and capitalism are alive and in our midst and are currently playing along with humanity. The current compromises that have been reached will change tomorrow. The key is “dialing it up to 11″. Because that is what Seed AI is – dialling it to 11. I don’t believe that either evolution’s ideal world or capitalim’s ideal world will coincide with humanity’s ideal world.

By: Thos Ward

Thos Ward — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 03:16:49 +0000

OK – I see.

Regarding sexlessness in Japan, this is very interesting. Massive commercialization and computation (online porn, no?) deployed toward sex doesn’t destroy sex but inoculates the drive?

Besides, I bet people would feed Pythia without her contributing to any harem, look at who develops AI. (rimshot-j.k.) In all seriousness, won’t people feed Pythia just to make it happen? It’s like working on atomic bombs or solving rubik’s cubes. Once she’s built, she can feed herself, no?