Typos (speech recognition software?) distract a bit from the argument in places. If I was smarter I could probably make an AI joke about that. Then someone could make a Jungian joke about why I pointed them out.
In physiological terms it would probably go something like:
Limbic system>subconscious>conscious>AI
The problem is the first three are all multiply interconnected and developed alongside each other, whereas AI has only one point of connection (language) and is a "bolt -on" attachment.
I would argue the real AI apocalypse probably more closely resembles a "limbic democracy" (a la Robert Charles Wilson) enabled by social media
Brilliant feat of pattern recognition—very persuasive.
Your prose is wonderful: “So it’s curious to me that this group should also have produced a subset of hyper-rationalistic individuals convinced that if we produce a machine superintelligence, it will kill us all. What does it mean, that the mirror AI holds up to this group should be an extension of thought that is hostile and murderous?”
And
“What that looks like, fittingly, is a god-like entity that is both hyper-rationalistic and yet, despite this (or perhaps because of it), so morally ungovernable that its coming into being signals human catastrophe.”
The precursor phenomena so prevalent in Silicon Valley of conceptually extravagant (but not very sensually appealing) sexuality and the now almost-two generation old cultic celebration of Burning Man support your thesis of why the Shadow that oozes from the consciousness of the hyper-rationalist trans human crowd is so toxic, and possibly lethal at scale.
I know a woman who works at a Magnificent 7 company who divorced her perfectly well-mannered beta husband and is now in a relationship with a trans man to woman who is biologically intact. In other words, she was unsatisfied with a man as man, but is sexually attracted to a man masquerading as a woman. This is where her “ratio” has led her!
I’m speculating here, but it’s even possible to affirm the logic of the arrangement based on primordial masculine:feminine polarity. Let’s say her cucked beta ex-husband is sexually ambivalent or passive himself and capable of, at best, tepid sex. Postulate further that her new man is sexually aroused by adopting the accoutrements of a woman and if therefore capable of intense, dominant sexual performance. In that case, the tech exec is making a rational choice by becoming a “virtual” lesbian: she finally gets properly fucked by an anatomical male while heaping up social credit in her professional circles by being a lesbian and in a trans relationship. Winning!
It could be argued that how she chooses to have fun has nothing to do with Silicon Valley forebodings about AI megadeath (or gigadeath) but the emerging disclosures about the sexual proclivities of Charlie Kirk’s murderer (and other trans-initiated violence) make this position nearly untenable.
Burning Man, especially for those who know about the dark underbelly of what happens on the salt flat, occupies a place on the collective trans human penumbra somewhere between a transgressive fantasy roll in the sheets and nightmares about AI extermination of humanity.
Everything considered, you have successfully connected cutting edge AI technology with the ancient human capability for bottomless evil in a startlingly fresh and compelling way.
Typos (speech recognition software?) distract a bit from the argument in places. If I was smarter I could probably make an AI joke about that. Then someone could make a Jungian joke about why I pointed them out.
You can blame that on too busy a family week rather than AI but thanks for the heads up, I’ll re-read later when I can
In physiological terms it would probably go something like:
Limbic system>subconscious>conscious>AI
The problem is the first three are all multiply interconnected and developed alongside each other, whereas AI has only one point of connection (language) and is a "bolt -on" attachment.
I would argue the real AI apocalypse probably more closely resembles a "limbic democracy" (a la Robert Charles Wilson) enabled by social media
Or
"Hyperion" by Dan Simmons
Brilliant feat of pattern recognition—very persuasive.
Your prose is wonderful: “So it’s curious to me that this group should also have produced a subset of hyper-rationalistic individuals convinced that if we produce a machine superintelligence, it will kill us all. What does it mean, that the mirror AI holds up to this group should be an extension of thought that is hostile and murderous?”
And
“What that looks like, fittingly, is a god-like entity that is both hyper-rationalistic and yet, despite this (or perhaps because of it), so morally ungovernable that its coming into being signals human catastrophe.”
The precursor phenomena so prevalent in Silicon Valley of conceptually extravagant (but not very sensually appealing) sexuality and the now almost-two generation old cultic celebration of Burning Man support your thesis of why the Shadow that oozes from the consciousness of the hyper-rationalist trans human crowd is so toxic, and possibly lethal at scale.
I know a woman who works at a Magnificent 7 company who divorced her perfectly well-mannered beta husband and is now in a relationship with a trans man to woman who is biologically intact. In other words, she was unsatisfied with a man as man, but is sexually attracted to a man masquerading as a woman. This is where her “ratio” has led her!
I’m speculating here, but it’s even possible to affirm the logic of the arrangement based on primordial masculine:feminine polarity. Let’s say her cucked beta ex-husband is sexually ambivalent or passive himself and capable of, at best, tepid sex. Postulate further that her new man is sexually aroused by adopting the accoutrements of a woman and if therefore capable of intense, dominant sexual performance. In that case, the tech exec is making a rational choice by becoming a “virtual” lesbian: she finally gets properly fucked by an anatomical male while heaping up social credit in her professional circles by being a lesbian and in a trans relationship. Winning!
It could be argued that how she chooses to have fun has nothing to do with Silicon Valley forebodings about AI megadeath (or gigadeath) but the emerging disclosures about the sexual proclivities of Charlie Kirk’s murderer (and other trans-initiated violence) make this position nearly untenable.
Burning Man, especially for those who know about the dark underbelly of what happens on the salt flat, occupies a place on the collective trans human penumbra somewhere between a transgressive fantasy roll in the sheets and nightmares about AI extermination of humanity.
Everything considered, you have successfully connected cutting edge AI technology with the ancient human capability for bottomless evil in a startlingly fresh and compelling way.
A Web of Our Making. Anton Barba-Kay. 😒