It does not currently look to me like we will win this war, speaking figuratively. But regardless, I still have many opportunities to bring truth, courage, justice, honor, love, playfulness, and other virtues into the world, and I am a person whose motivations run more on living out virtues rather than moving toward concrete hopes. I will still be here building things I love, like LessWrong and Lighthaven, until the end.
Though I have worries, and short timelines, so too do I have hope. I believe the next two years will be pivotal, and that we have important roles to play.
Speaking frankly as mostly an outside observer/commentator this sounds too cultish and too similar to doom posting.
All the words posted on LW so far are just that, words… Any attached meanings, projections, implications, etc., are done so by fallible people similar to you.
So why behave as if the sky is falling?
There still are reasons and arguments, probably very many, yet undiscovered. And that’s not limited to the pros and cons of ‘AI’. (I’m not even sure if there is a widely accepted definition of ‘AI’ that doesn’t cause epistemological problems)
So if you believe you have a mission, then keep on working at that as mentioned, without the trembling in fear in any direction.
For over a decade I have examined the evidence, thought about the situation from many different perspectives (political, mathematical, personal, economic, etc), and considered arguments and counterarguments. This is my honest understanding of the situation, and I am expressing how I truly feel about that.
Can you give me your best one-or-two-line guess? I think the question is trivial from what I’ve written and I don’t really know why you’re not also finding it clear.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas
I’m still fighting. I hope you can find the strength to too.
I think we have the opposite problem: our words are about to fork all the lightning.
Thank you.
It does not currently look to me like we will win this war, speaking figuratively. But regardless, I still have many opportunities to bring truth, courage, justice, honor, love, playfulness, and other virtues into the world, and I am a person whose motivations run more on living out virtues rather than moving toward concrete hopes. I will still be here building things I love, like LessWrong and Lighthaven, until the end.
Though I have worries, and short timelines, so too do I have hope. I believe the next two years will be pivotal, and that we have important roles to play.
Let us hold firm in the face of great danger.
Speaking frankly as mostly an outside observer/commentator this sounds too cultish and too similar to doom posting.
All the words posted on LW so far are just that, words… Any attached meanings, projections, implications, etc., are done so by fallible people similar to you.
So why behave as if the sky is falling?
There still are reasons and arguments, probably very many, yet undiscovered. And that’s not limited to the pros and cons of ‘AI’. (I’m not even sure if there is a widely accepted definition of ‘AI’ that doesn’t cause epistemological problems)
So if you believe you have a mission, then keep on working at that as mentioned, without the trembling in fear in any direction.
For over a decade I have examined the evidence, thought about the situation from many different perspectives (political, mathematical, personal, economic, etc), and considered arguments and counterarguments. This is my honest understanding of the situation, and I am expressing how I truly feel about that.
So then what is forcing you to attach so many fears to this or that?
Can you give me your best one-or-two-line guess? I think the question is trivial from what I’ve written and I don’t really know why you’re not also finding it clear.