Beautiful and wonderful and important. My experience of Taoism and my philosophical insights up to this point have pointed to the reality that your own experience determines your own magic. The link to No Eyed Girl made me want to cry. It felt so poignant and accurate. Thank you for writing this.
One concern: Can we rely on our intuitions, poetry, philosophy, historical analysis, to know whether the singularity is good? Since a thing that is smarter than us would be something new under the sun, wouldn't that invalidate these literary ways of knowing?
Also, I have not seen anyone critical of Eliezer Yudkowsky (AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities) actually address his arguments. If he is wrong it should be possible to go through and address each of his points and show where he errs. What I have seen is, "Eliezer Yudkowsky has an argument for 'A', and here is my argument for 'not A' so therefore Eliezer is wrong."
Beautiful and wonderful and important. My experience of Taoism and my philosophical insights up to this point have pointed to the reality that your own experience determines your own magic. The link to No Eyed Girl made me want to cry. It felt so poignant and accurate. Thank you for writing this.
I only skimmed this... Did you mention anywhere, that you should not call up, that which you cannot put down?
I enjoyed reading this piece.
One concern: Can we rely on our intuitions, poetry, philosophy, historical analysis, to know whether the singularity is good? Since a thing that is smarter than us would be something new under the sun, wouldn't that invalidate these literary ways of knowing?
Also, I have not seen anyone critical of Eliezer Yudkowsky (AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities) actually address his arguments. If he is wrong it should be possible to go through and address each of his points and show where he errs. What I have seen is, "Eliezer Yudkowsky has an argument for 'A', and here is my argument for 'not A' so therefore Eliezer is wrong."