I just read this article, and I think your ideas are beautiful and should be spread further throughout the E.A. community. Is there any way that this article could be rewritten to be more palatable to an E.A. audience, perhaps by removing quotes from the Bible and Qur’an, and changing the title to something like “The Singularity and Its Metaphysical Implications.” I’ll share with you a draft of what I’m thinking of. Love what you’re doing man, keep at it!
Hi Tomer, I really appreciate the kind words! I think the piece turned out a little strange because I was trying to do too many things at once. I was trying to frame EA and the Singularity in terms that would lead religious people to take it seriously, while also making the largely atheistic EA crowd more appreciative of some compatibilist religious ideas.
I just published a post that expounds a bit on some of the ideas I mention in this piece.
I think that AGI might require us to dig a little deeper when it comes to governance and political philosophy. The framing of transformative AI as just another technology like electricity or nuclear power with little major implications on global governance and society seems wrong to me. And getting a proper understanding of the ideas that currently govern us and that motivate most people seems really underrated in EA.
I just read this article, and I think your ideas are beautiful and should be spread further throughout the E.A. community. Is there any way that this article could be rewritten to be more palatable to an E.A. audience, perhaps by removing quotes from the Bible and Qur’an, and changing the title to something like “The Singularity and Its Metaphysical Implications.” I’ll share with you a draft of what I’m thinking of. Love what you’re doing man, keep at it!
Hi Tomer, I really appreciate the kind words! I think the piece turned out a little strange because I was trying to do too many things at once. I was trying to frame EA and the Singularity in terms that would lead religious people to take it seriously, while also making the largely atheistic EA crowd more appreciative of some compatibilist religious ideas.
I just published a post that expounds a bit on some of the ideas I mention in this piece.
I think that AGI might require us to dig a little deeper when it comes to governance and political philosophy. The framing of transformative AI as just another technology like electricity or nuclear power with little major implications on global governance and society seems wrong to me. And getting a proper understanding of the ideas that currently govern us and that motivate most people seems really underrated in EA.