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@moeller_ml it’s not an accident that all the sad…

@moeller_ml it’s not an accident that all the sad Singularitarians are white Anglophone dudes.

@moeller_ml and in particular colonizers’ fear of being exploited in just the way they exploit other humans right here on earth.

@moeller_ml Drake Equation seems to protect us from being colonized by interstellar civ. But sad sing. really reflects fear of colonization

@moeller_ml we’re already under existential threat from “for-profit corporation” class of paperclip-maximizers, no superintelligence needed.

1880s Unicode: hacking per-word telegraph pricing by replacing expensive phrases with Latin words. h/t @FakeUnicode https://t.co/JDwAUYM8YO

Seriously, “rock stars” are arrogant narcissists. Plumbers keep us all from getting cholera. Build functional infrastructure. Be a plumber.

@moeller_ml happy (Kurzweil) *and* sad (Bostrom, Yudkowski) Singularitarians. Whee.

@moeller_ml tbh I’m not sure what you mean by “identity”. talking about ppl who think consciousness is special, or Singularitarians or…?

@QAGreenways if @motorists is a parody it’s staying very carefully in character

I want to believe that people in my feed don’t subscribe to the magickal view of AI, that having identity puts a machine on another plane.