As everyone knows, the most important truth rationalists have uncovered with their superior powers of induction is that the robot uprising is coming. ChatGPT will shortly turn into a sphere of paperclips expanding through the galaxy at the speed of light. I think they’re wrong here, but it’s not impossible. What’s strange is what they’ve actually done with this belief. Rationalists don’t just think AI will kill us all; they’re significantly overrepresented among the people who are actually building AI.
are quite reasonable, and shared by many people here, including me =)
He’s been writing a lot of great stuff. Last year he had a post on AI art, and the Neanderthal story which is my favorite thing he’s written.
Maybe eventually rationalists will drag him into the orbit (he wrote about being at a party with Scott once?)
Sam Kriss is notably anti-rat so probably not
I think his anti-rat views like this one
are quite reasonable, and shared by many people here, including me =)
I mean I agree too, I just don’t think he’d ever become a card-carrying rat (which tbf I am also not myself)