I’m joined once again by my favorite AI scientist, Terry Rankin.
On this episode, we talk not about what has happened with AI in the past week or so, but some much deeper issues.
First, we talk about the implications of engineering for ‘imitation’ of human thought vs. what Terry terms ‘epistemic adequacy’ and we tease out some of the unsettling consequences of that. This allows AI Evil.
Next, we unpack the ideology or worldview of the Tech Broligarchs: TESCREAL (transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, effective altrusism, and longtermism). Here is the seminal paper on this topic. This directs AI toward Evil ends.
Finally, we plunge into the ‘singularity’ and this is not just a big deal but spells our end. The triumph of Evil.
