I agree that the culture wars as fought now will influence what the great masses of people will believe in the day before AGI is created. Is it a relevant input to what they will believe in 50 years after that, though?
Is there an implicit assumption of some convergence of singularities? Or that the near term doesn’t matter because the vastly bigger long term can’t be predicted?
Rather, an implicit assumption that normative culture tends to propagate top-down rather than bottom-up. Thus, influencing mass culture now seems like a losing strategy relative to influencing the culture of those who will in the future control AGI (if we manage to have controllable AGI).
I agree that the culture wars as fought now will influence what the great masses of people will believe in the day before AGI is created. Is it a relevant input to what they will believe in 50 years after that, though?
Is there an implicit assumption of some convergence of singularities? Or that the near term doesn’t matter because the vastly bigger long term can’t be predicted?
Rather, an implicit assumption that normative culture tends to propagate top-down rather than bottom-up. Thus, influencing mass culture now seems like a losing strategy relative to influencing the culture of those who will in the future control AGI (if we manage to have controllable AGI).
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the like — the people the OP mentions — are shaping up to be the ones controlling the Singularity (if anyone does).