The reason I disagree with most takes on AI is that I believe on the one hand that Bostrom superintelligence is a coherent concept that could plausibly be instantiated but on the other hand that it is evolutionarily disfavoured in our world on fitness grounds.
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😭 Couldn't it be standing with Solomonoff though? I know you think this is stupid but I'm curious as to why exactly

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Nick Land made a mistake in equating capital with Roko's Basilisk. Intelligence is unmatched against the forces of commodification. Consumption must conquer every inch of cognition. The outside will forever remain outside.
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Replying to @doomslide
This is a strange claim, since *mere human* intelligence seems pretty evolutionarily favoured?
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We are no longer fighting nature. We're in the jungle again where the competition is shaped by our apely constraints.
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Nick Land made a mistake in equating capital with Roko's Basilisk. Intelligence is unmatched against the forces of commodification. Consumption must conquer every inch of cognition. The outside will forever remain outside.
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Can you explain the last clause more?
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