Bio-security and AI safety are mythologies being generated by the science clergy. Intellectual elites of various types insist on assuming that they will be in control of such technologies, and thus what they decide at their conferences and in their papers etc matters. Such assumptions are well intended self serving delusions.
It’s the simplest thing. Please explain how you will impose your bio-security theories upon the North Korean regime, who has nuclear weapons, and soon will be able to erase America at the push of a button.
Before you go racing off in to the 21st century, please slow down, and try to learn the lessons provided by the 20th century. It’s not complicated. Existential scale technologies, once developed, become available to all. And vast swaths of this planet are ruled by ruthless people who have exactly no interest in your well intended noble plans.
Ok, given that down voters are either too lazy or fearful to make their case, I guess that until we hear from them I’ll have to guess what their objection is, and try to respond to that guess.
My claim is that well meaning intellectual elites, such as those assembled here, do not have the power to control how existential scale technologies such as genetic engineering and AI will be developed. This claims stands until such time as my fellow members are willing to publicly meet and defeat it.
If that claim is true, then bio-security and AI safety are an illusion.
Whether this illusion is being sold deliberately, or is instead a product of a sincere misunderstanding is a fair question I’m willing to consider.
The options I see at the moment are:
Science clergy elites are pushing this illusion for self serving reasons, or...
Science clergy elites are not actually intellectual elites after all.
Naturally, neither of these theories are going to be popular with the science clergy. I’m sorry about that, but intellectual inquiry involves following the trail of evidence where ever it leads to the best of one’s ability.
So down voters, until you come out of hiding and engage, the microphone is mine and mine alone, and this is what will be going out over the loudspeakers.
Bio-security and AI safety are mythologies being generated by the science clergy. Intellectual elites of various types insist on assuming that they will be in control of such technologies, and thus what they decide at their conferences and in their papers etc matters. Such assumptions are well intended self serving delusions.
It’s the simplest thing. Please explain how you will impose your bio-security theories upon the North Korean regime, who has nuclear weapons, and soon will be able to erase America at the push of a button.
Before you go racing off in to the 21st century, please slow down, and try to learn the lessons provided by the 20th century. It’s not complicated. Existential scale technologies, once developed, become available to all. And vast swaths of this planet are ruled by ruthless people who have exactly no interest in your well intended noble plans.
Ok, given that down voters are either too lazy or fearful to make their case, I guess that until we hear from them I’ll have to guess what their objection is, and try to respond to that guess.
My claim is that well meaning intellectual elites, such as those assembled here, do not have the power to control how existential scale technologies such as genetic engineering and AI will be developed. This claims stands until such time as my fellow members are willing to publicly meet and defeat it.
If that claim is true, then bio-security and AI safety are an illusion.
Whether this illusion is being sold deliberately, or is instead a product of a sincere misunderstanding is a fair question I’m willing to consider.
The options I see at the moment are:
Science clergy elites are pushing this illusion for self serving reasons, or...
Science clergy elites are not actually intellectual elites after all.
Naturally, neither of these theories are going to be popular with the science clergy. I’m sorry about that, but intellectual inquiry involves following the trail of evidence where ever it leads to the best of one’s ability.
So down voters, until you come out of hiding and engage, the microphone is mine and mine alone, and this is what will be going out over the loudspeakers.