As a couple of people have responded “💬”, here’s an elaboration.
AI will make isolation dramatically easier. Right now, if you want to shield your kids from mainstream culture, you have to constantly fight an uphill battle.
My first thought here was rationalist homeschooling and communities, surely thought a good thing around here (if you can avoid the cult attractors). See, for example, Zvi’s tirades against conventional education. But no, the example later in the paragraph is a shibboleth for certain types of Christians, already mentioned in the very title of the post. Boo! Ick! We can’t have Christians bringing up their children in the way they think they should go!
If the suggested danger were generalised cult attractors facilitated by AI, then that may be a concern. But the concern expressed here is tainted by being only directed towards an out-group. How about “a tutor who can teach calculus at MIT level while never mentioning” religion? Is that also bad? (Not that there’s any reason either subject would come up in a mathematics course.)
Christians are an ingroup? Tell that to any Christian living outside of the American South. Ingroup/outgroup statuses are context- and scope-dependent.
Over the last 10-20 years, Christians (particularly fundamentalists) have had very little involvement with cutting-edge AI, both on the technical side and the business side. In this sense, they’re an outgroup of the people who are likely to control ASI.
As a couple of people have responded “💬”, here’s an elaboration.
My first thought here was rationalist homeschooling and communities, surely thought a good thing around here (if you can avoid the cult attractors). See, for example, Zvi’s tirades against conventional education. But no, the example later in the paragraph is a shibboleth for certain types of Christians, already mentioned in the very title of the post. Boo! Ick! We can’t have Christians bringing up their children in the way they think they should go!
If the suggested danger were generalised cult attractors facilitated by AI, then that may be a concern. But the concern expressed here is tainted by being only directed towards an out-group. How about “a tutor who can teach calculus at MIT level while never mentioning” religion? Is that also bad? (Not that there’s any reason either subject would come up in a mathematics course.)
Christians are an out group? Tell that to any non-Christian living in the American South.
Christians are an ingroup? Tell that to any Christian living outside of the American South. Ingroup/outgroup statuses are context- and scope-dependent.
Over the last 10-20 years, Christians (particularly fundamentalists) have had very little involvement with cutting-edge AI, both on the technical side and the business side. In this sense, they’re an outgroup of the people who are likely to control ASI.
They’re an out-group in rationalist circles, e.g. right here, where the article was posted.