It fleshed out a lot of archetypes (e.g. “the person on the inside who thinks they’ll be in the right place at the right time”, “the person who feels they have had a meditation/emotional insight and this has gotten them over the intellectual hump of not building killing machines”, “the person who believes the AI may kill everyone but did an EV calculation and decided to make lots of money anyway” etc) and ways-the-future-could-go in way more detail than I’ve seen before.
There are many ideas in here that I’ve heard said offhand but never really dived into, and there’s something very informative and satisfying about seeing them painted in detail. Similar to the difference between a one-sentence description of a painting, and the actual painting.
Plus lots of fun and dramatic detail to how it’s all woven together.
These are some of the things that occur to me in answer to your question.
Yes, I felt much disgust and dismay reading it. I also feel that way about many parts of the real world!
It fleshed out a lot of archetypes (e.g. “the person on the inside who thinks they’ll be in the right place at the right time”, “the person who feels they have had a meditation/emotional insight and this has gotten them over the intellectual hump of not building killing machines”, “the person who believes the AI may kill everyone but did an EV calculation and decided to make lots of money anyway” etc) and ways-the-future-could-go in way more detail than I’ve seen before.
There are many ideas in here that I’ve heard said offhand but never really dived into, and there’s something very informative and satisfying about seeing them painted in detail. Similar to the difference between a one-sentence description of a painting, and the actual painting.
Plus lots of fun and dramatic detail to how it’s all woven together.
These are some of the things that occur to me in answer to your question.
Yes, I felt much disgust and dismay reading it. I also feel that way about many parts of the real world!