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By: Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » Exterminator

Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » Exterminator — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:13:47 +0000

[…] cosmic horror of intellectual encounter with the Great Filter. (If we want an alliance with Pythia, this would make a good topic of conversation.) The same consideration applies to all […]

By: Outside in - Involvements with reality » Blog Archive » Identity Hunger

Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:08:16 +0000

[…] with clubs and cults than nations and creeds, with Yog Sothoth than my ancestral religion, and with Pythia than the Human Security System. I think true cosmopolitans — such as the adventurers of late […]

By: Thos Ward

Thos Ward — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:58:04 +0000

“Say we seal our Oracle AI into a deep mountain vault in Alaska’s Denali wilderness.”

So we’ll create Chthulu.

By: Mark Warburton

Mark Warburton — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:04:49 +0000

What at awe-inspiring article/essay this was! Looking forward to Bostrom’s book on super intelligence!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:39:34 +0000

Yes, an awkward truth. If humans have no use at the frontier, their potential as drivers of deep liberty has to come into question.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 02:36:01 +0000

From a cynically strategic PoV, the “X is impossible” argument isn’t much of an obstacle (maybe it reduces investment a little). It’s “X is going to kill us” that generates resistance. (So I’m not unhappy with the tranquilizing “Oh, self-escalating synthetic super-intelligences, there’s no need to worry about that.”)

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:41:29 +0000

Nostromo needs no humans to mine the stars.

By: Scharlach

Scharlach — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 00:39:48 +0000

I just take an historical view on these kinds of debates. It’s quite easy to multiply quotes from decades and centuries past that display X authority pontificating about how [insert taken-for-granted-technology here] will never come to fruition because [insert seemingly reasonable argument here].

I had a calculus professor in college who worked for the Pentagon in the 90s. He got a kick out of posting from a computer with capabilities ~10 years ahead of their consumer-grade analogues while debating with people on BBS’s about how long it would take for his computer to even be invented.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:34:16 +0000

Admin Deep Space’s business plan solves the fuel cconomics.

If successful of course.

By: VXXC

VXXC — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:30:19 +0000

Well Admin Lure of the Void sold me on space, except for the Neo-Lib fate of earth.

But the basic economic message of LOV [Lure Of Void] is incorporated by DeepSpace.

Now they may not make it, I’m not selling anything. But their main premise is get to other planets by being the Gas Station.

As I’m sold on the traditional parts [but not neo-lib] LOV economics, it’s a winner.

Like the Asterrank…